(community; enjoining good; lawful; spiritual stations of the people of purity; forbidding wrong; five daily prayers; the two testimonies)
The understandings of created beings are not related to ḥaqīqa (inner reality). Ḥaqīqa is not in accordance with created nature. Khawāṭir (thoughts that come to the heart on this matter) are mere connections. The connections of created beings cannot reach ḥaqīqa. To comprehend the knowledge of ḥaqīqa is difficult. How could the reality of ḥaqīqa itself be comprehended?! The right of the Real (Ḥaqq) is beyond ḥaqīqa. Ḥaqīqa is even beyond the Real. (Tawāsīn, 194)
Ḥaqīqa is subtle; its paths are narrow. Inside, it is a roaring fire; ahead, a deep abyss. When the stranger (gharīb) enters this path, he speaks of forty stations. Here are the forty stations: Adab (propriety), raheb (fear)...