For this reason in the noble Hadiths the causes of...

For this reason in the noble Hadiths the causes of legislating many rituals are ascribed to the said case of the 'tree' and Adam's eating of it, such as the Wudu' , Salat , ghusl , fasting during the month of Ramadān and its being thirty days, and many of the hajj rituals. The writer has for many years been thinking of writing a thesis on this subject, but other engagements have prevented that. I ask Allah, the Exalted, success and happiness.

Generally speaking, you are an offspring of Adam, a seed for meeting (Allah) and created for knowing (Him). Allah, the Exalted, has chosen you for Himself and has shaped you with His two hands of Beauty and Majesty, and told the angels to fall down bowing to you, and caused Iblīs to envy you.

So if you want to get out of the state of the janābah of your father, who is your origin, and to be worthy to meet the Beloved [ hadrat-i mahbūb ] and to become ready to attain “the state of familiarity” [ maqām-i uns ] and “the Presence of the Divine Sanctity” [ hadrat-i quds ], you are to ritually wash the interior of your heart with the water of mercy, and to repent from attending to this world, which is of the manifestations [ mazāhir ] of the forbidden tree, and to completely wash your heart, which is the meeting place of the Beautiful and the Beauty of the Majestic, from loving the world and its evil affairs, which are Satanic impurities, for the paradise of meeting the Haqq (Allah) is a place for the pure: “No one enters Paradise except the pure.”[^5] “Wash yourself, then walk to the tavern.”[^6] [^1]: He refers to Shaykh Muhyi 'd-Dīn ibn al-'Arabī in his al-Futuhāt al-Makkiyyah, vol.

1, p. 363. [^2]: Wasā'il ash-Shī'ah, vol. 1, “Book of Purification,” sec. on ”Wudū',” ch. 4, hadīth 1, p. 261. [^3]: Ibid., sec. on ”Janabah,” ch. 2, hadīth 2, p. 466, quoted from Man lā Yahduruh al-Faqīh, vol. 1, p. 22; Al-Majālis, p. 115; Al-'Ilal, p. 104. [^4]: Ibid., hadīth 4, quoted from al-'Ilal, vol. 1, p. 281 and 'Uyūnu Akhbār ar-Ridā, p. 291. [^5]: “Paradise is not entered except by the good.” Usūl al-Kāfī, vol. 3, “Book on Faith and Disbelief,” sec. on “Sins,” hadīth 7, p. 371.

[^6]: Wash yourself, then walk to the tavern, That this ruined convent may not be polluted by you. Hāfiz Shīrāzī Previous…