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renunciation. A man has got multifold natures and renunciation is not complete till he is free from those natures. The last limit of renunciation is to give up everything except God, such a person will not yse even a stone as pillow as Jesus Christ did. So the sign of renunciation is that poverty and solvency, honour and dishonour, praise and defamation are all the same to him. This is the result of predominance of God's love in a person.
Ihya-bin-Moaz said : To gift away what is in possession is the sign of renunciation- Ibn-Khafif said : I one finds peace of mind on the loss of a thing, it is the sign of this renunciation. Abu Solaiman said : Sufi cloth is one of the signs of renunciation.
Sufiyan said : Little hope is the sign of renunciation. Nasrabazi said : A worldly renounced man is a sojourner in the world and an Aref is a sojouner of the next world. Ihya-bin-Moaz said :
There ar three signs of renunciation (1) to work without connection, (2) to talks without greed (3) and to seek honour without power. He said : He who adopts renunciation gives you smell of condiment and mustard oil, but an Aref or gnostic gives you smell of camphor and otto. A man asked them : When shall I enter the shop of Godreliance, wear the apparel of renunciation arid keep company with the worldly renounced men ? He said :
To sit with them is foolishness till you reach to stage when your belief of certainty does not become weak if your provision for three days is cut off. He said : The world is like a newly married girl. She go^s with one who wants her. He who renounces the world makes his face black, shaves hairs and wears torn cloths, but a gnostic remains busy with God and does not do these things. The saint Sarri Sakti said : I travelled all the ways of renunciation. I got from it what I wanted but I could not earn renunciation living in the society of men. The sage Fazl said : God kept all the evils together in a house and made its key the love of the world. He placed all good in a house and made its key world renunciation.