Signs For Seekers

A sign of compliance with passion (hawa’) is haste in supererogatory good deeds (nawafil) and sluggishness is fulfilling obligations (wajibat).
A sign of the heart’s death is the absence of sadness over acts of obedience that you have neglected and the abandonment of regret over mistakes that you have made.
Among the signs of success at the [...]

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Two Universal Graces

There are two graces (ni’matan) from which no being can be separated and that are inevitable for every creature: the grace of existence (ni’mat al-ijad), and the grace of sustenance (ni’mat al-imdad).
Sidi Ibn Ata’illah (ra)
So ponder O people of intellect!!

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