“Freedom from lower qualities is an essential qualification required for spiritual progress.”
Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr (967–1049) poet
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 95
“The fact that spiritual realism, or faith, pertains to the intelligence of the heart and not to that of the mind, enables one to understand that in spirituality, the moral qualification takes precedence over the intellectual qualification, and by far.”
[2013, From the Divine to the Human, World Wisdom, 71, 978-1-936597-32-1]
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