“If you wish that God should dwell in your heart, purify your heart from all save Him for the king will not enter a house filled with stores and furniture. He will only enter a heart which is empty of all save Himself.”
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 96
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