1. One of the signs of relying on one's own deeds is the loss of hope when a downfall occurs.
2. Your striving for what has been guaranteed to you (i.e. dunya), and your remissness in what is demanded of you (i.e. akhirah), are sings of the blurring of your intellect.
3. If in spite of intense supplication, there is delay in the timing of the Gift, let that not be the cause for your despairing. For He has guaranteed you a response in what He chooses for you, not in what you choose for yourself, and at the time He desires not the time you desire.
4. Actions are lifeless forms, but the presence of an inner reality of sincerity within them is what endows them with life-giving spirit.
5. Nothing benefits the heart more than a spiritual retreat wherein it enters the domain of meditation.
6. How can it be conceived that something veils Him, since He is the one who manifests every thing?
7. How can it be conceived that something veils Him, since He is more manifest than anything?
8. How can it be conceived that something veils Him, since He is nearer to you than anything else?
9. How can it be conceived that something veils Him, since He is alongside of whom there is nothing?
10. How can it be conceived that something veils Him, since were it not for Him, the existence of everything would not have been manifest? [Ibn Ataillah Iskandari]
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