Chapter VI: Love, Longing, Contentment
God said to Daud: Be attached to Me, be satisfied in getting Me and be separate from others. The saint Rabia was asked: For what deed, have you attained this position? He said: For giving up what is not necessary for me and for being attached to One who is the Beginning and the End. Abdul Wahed said: While passing by a man who renunciated the world, I asked him: O one who has renounced the world, I wonder at your solitary habitation. He said: O brother, if you have found pleasure in solitary habitation, you would have kept yourself separate from passion. Solitary habitation is the basis of divine service. I said:0 one who has renounced the world, what is the least benefit you have got in solitary habitation? He said: Freedom from flattery of people and security from their evils. I asked: O one who has renounced the world, in what time people get the pleasure of attachment for God? He said: When love is pure and deeds sincere. 1 asked: When is love pure? He said: When thoughts are centered in God. A certain sage said: How are the people engaged in things other than You? How can they be attached to others giving You up?
Question. What is the sign that a man is satisfied with God?
Answer. His special signs are that his mind becomes narrow ' in mixing with the people, gets disgusted in mixing with them
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and becomes joyful at the pleasure of Zikr. He lives in society as if alone and lives in solitude as if in society. He is like a sojourner in his house and like a permanent resident in journey, a man present in obscurity and a man absent in presence, but he is separate in mind and remains immerged in Zikr. Hazrat AH explained about them saying: They are a people who have been * given more knowledge of everything and are given the good news of the light of certain faith. They think easy what the rich think difficult. They make friends with those from whom the fools keep aloof. They live in the world with their bodies but their souls keep hanging with the highest Throne. They are the real, representatives of God on earth and inviters to His religiofi.
FRUITS OF SATISFACTION IS EXPANSION OF BREAST: