“That servant who is claimant of Divine knowledge but seeks peace in other than God, is entrapped in severe affliction. But when comely he seeks forgiveness of the Almighty, his affliction is eliminated.”

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 59

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