“The seeker's real approach to God means his preoccupation with afflictions appearing on the way to Him. Tribulations in separation from God is to be treated as a boon granted by God to His elect.”

—  Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 263

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