Never consider marifat to be an ordinary act because religion...

Never consider marifat to be an ordinary act because religion, iman (faith), and the Day of Judgment are all completely dependent upon marifat.

This is why RasoolAllah (saw) said, "Anyone who dies without gaining the marifat of the Imam of his time dies the death of an ignorant (jahil), kufr (disbeliever), and nifaq (hypocrite)." Now you can understand the importance of marifat that even if a person, who has prayed his whole life, fasts everyday, has performed hajj will die as a munafiq simply because he did not gain the marifat of the Imam of his time.

If someone asks you how marifat begins, the brief answer is it begins from three things; knowledge, deep…