But whoever is indulged in other than me...

But whoever is indulged in other than me, he is among those who mock themselves, and his name is registered in the Book of the Losers.”[^2] This noble hadīth explains both the secrets and the disciplines, and, by contemplation, it opens ways of knowledge in the face of the sālik to Allah, and destroys the obstinacy and the denial of the deniers, and supports and praises the godly men of knowledge and the people of certainty, and attracts attention to the reality of privacy and intimacy with Allah, and forsaking other than Allah, the Exalted.

[^1]: Sūrah al-Ahzāb 33:4. [^2]: Misbāh ash-Sharī'ah, ch. 16, on “The Sujūd.” Previous…