Anwar al-Hidayah Journal Article

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The second level: is that they persist in acts of worship, spiritual exercises, struggles, contemplating the creation of the earths and heavens, and thinking and encompassing the individual parts and details of those meanings that the Holy Ones have taught them, and the persistence in the remembrance of Allah the Exalted and reciting those attributes to Him, until their hearts become illuminated by the reality of the lights of those meanings, and their commanding and self-reproaching souls become tranquil, and they reach the station of "کُنتُ سَمعَهُ الذی یسمع بِه بَصَرهُ الذی یبصربه", as will be mentioned. And the summary of what has been heard from the Holy Ones, peace be upon them, regarding the chapter of attributes is: knowing the attributes of Allah the Exalted consists of: knowing that ultimate end and effect that results from those attributes; just as some have asked Imam Muhammad al-Baqir, peace be upon him, about the meaning of wrath which occurs in the noble verse ﴿و من یحلل علیه غضبی فقد هوی﴾. As for the virtuous Divine Sheikh, meaning Sheikh Baha' al-Din al-Amili (may Allah have mercy on him), in his book 'Arba'in', while explaining this hadith, he has expressed several phrases in Arabic with extreme delicacy, the translation of which is as follows: It must be known that for the Sufis and the people of the heart, at this station, these are soul-reviving words and grief-relieving indications, whose fragrances perfume the nostrils of the soul, and the lifeless vessel becomes vibrant upon hearing their beauties.