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 Completion (Perfection) of ‘Irfaan
(Gnosis = Intimate Knowledge of Allaah )

To accept the fact cheerfully that everything good or evil is from Allaah based on His Divine Wisdom, is the preliminary stage of Gnosis (Ma'rifah).

To eat ordinary food, to dress in ordinary clothes and to live in an ordinary house and to completely turn away from all kinds of riches and acquisitions of comfort and luxury and remain absorbed with all the mind and body in one’s work, is the middle stage of Gnosis. To forget everything of the universe and to have no interest in anything except one’s work is the perfection of Gnosis.

Allaah is proud of only that slave who is independent of (detached from and disinterested) in bestowals and fate and is not only not unhappy and critical of events which visit him/her, but understands them to be based on Divine Wisdom and cheerfully welcomes them.  And this is the mother (source) of all good deeds.

Welcoming all events and happenings, understanding them to be results of Divine Commands leads to happiness.

Do not complain about your destiny.

Every Destiny is a Divine decree – inevitable.

The Lord of destiny is Allaah . . . leave it to Him.

Life is destiny.

There is comfort in acquiescence and sadness in criticism.       

Who has any power over any act of goodness?

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