📘 then He makes him die and buries him.He said:Its inner meaning is that He causes the pleasures (ḥuẓūẓ) which the lower self derives from lust, to die, and buries him [i.e. the pleasures] within him.

📘 Then, when He wills, He will raise him,affiliated with wisdom (ḥikma), in a contemplative witnessing (mushāhada) of God, whilst being cut off from all other than Him.His words, Exalted is He:

📘 We pour down water plenteously,He said:It is a pouring down of the subtlety of His meanings (luṭf maʿānīhi), represented by water. Then We split the earth [80:26] which is the heart, in fissures [80:26] and grow in it flowers of differentcolours, those of the spirit (rūḥ), intellect (ʿaql), faith (īmān) and gnosis (maʿrifa), just as the Messenger of God said, �Is not the Qurʾān the flower of hearts (zahrat al-qulūb)? Does not faith cultivate wealth (ghinā) in the heart, just as the rain causes the flowers to grow? Is it not so that avarice (shuḥḥ) causes hypocrisy (nifāq) to grow in the heart just as dew causes herbage to grow?�His words, Mighty and Majestic is He:

📘 the day when a man will flee from his [own] brother, [such as] Abel from Cain, Muḥammad from his uncle, Abraham from his father, Lot from his wife, and Noah from his own son.

📘 every person that day will have a matter to concern him,Which will distract him from everyone except his own self.Sahl said:Muḥammad b. Sawwār related on the authority of Ibn ʿUmar y that the Prophet said, �Whoeverwishes to behold the Resurrection as if he were seeing it with his own eyes should read: When the sun is folded away [81:1], When the heaven is split open [82:1] and When the heaven is rent asunder [84:1].�His words, Exalted is He: