Do you know what is the Desire?
Do you know what is the Desire?’ I said, ‘No’. He -asws said: ‘It is the first Remembrance (الذِّكْر). So do you know what is the Intention?’ I said, ‘No’. He -asws said: ‘It is the Determination upon what He -azwj so Desires. So do you know what is the Determination?’ I said, ‘No’. He -asws said: ‘It is the Engineering and the Placement of the limitations for the remaining and the perishing’.
قَالَ ثُمَّ قَالَ وَ الْقَضَاءُ هُوَ الْإِبْرَامُ وَ إِقَامَةُ الْعَيْنِ He (the narrator) said, ‘Then he -asws said: ‘And the Ordainment, it is the accomplishment of the eyes (physical reality)’. قَالَ فَاسْتَأْذَنْتُهُ أَنْ أُقَبِّلَ رَأْسَهُ وَ قُلْتُ فَتَحْتَ لِي شَيْئاً كُنْتُ عَنْهُ فِي غَفْلَةٍ . He (the narrator) said, ‘So I sought his -asws permission to kiss his -asws head, and I said, ‘You -asws opened something for me which I was oblivious of’.
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