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However, the person who follows the spiritual life according to the directives of Islam knows full well that such a way is easier than that of Islam, for such people, by abandoning everyday life, have taken the easy way out and have fled from the difficulty of continual vigil and effort. They have set a barrier on the road towards perfection which creation itself and the means it has put at man’s disposal have prepared.

Such men have set out on a path of their own fancy, and it is questionable whether they will ever reach the goal which creation has determined for them.

In addition, given that the world and all it contains are the creation of God and that the phenomena of the world, each according to the measure of its own existence, are signs of the Truth and mirrors displaying God, and given that man along with the various conditions which mark his primordial nature is one of these signs, then it is necessary that in the spiritual life (the way of knowledge of self and of God) God be recognized in every situation.

All of these mirrors must be utilized in the acquisition of divine knowledge and in the contemplation of God’s Beauty, for if this is not the case man will gain nothing more from his labours than imperfect knowledge or perfect ignorance. Adapted from the book titled “Muhammad in the Mirror of Islam” by William C. Chittick Continue in the next article: ( Islam Doctrines on Equality, Realism, Wisdom and Mysticism (5) ) NOTES: _________________________________________________ 1.

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