The book has been translated into simple language and speaks directly without difficult and couched meanings.
A quote from the Chapter on Love: "God Most High revealed to Jesus, 'When I look upon the heart of a servant and do not find in it the love of this world or the next, I fill it with the love of Me.'"
In the Chapter on Humility: "It is said that humilty is a fading that comes over the heart when it becomes aware of the Lord, or else that it is the heart's melting and drawing back before the power of reality."
In the Chapter on Hope: Malik bin Dinar was seen in a dream. He was asked, "What has God done with you?" "I was brought before my Lord Almighty and Glorious with many sins," he replied. "My good thoughts of Him made them vanish from me." |