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Gifts For the Seeker by Imam Abdallah ibn Alawi Al Haddad

GIFTS FOR THE SEEKER

From the Book

A shaykh or a scholar is like a compassionate father and a gentle tutor; he speaks in such a manner as to be of benefit and profit.

Gnostics, however, are subject to overpowering and absorbing spiritual states in which they become unable to keep in mind what we have just mentioned;

their states should be conceding acknowledged, for they are too high in rank to be objected to or accused of ignorance or negligence.

This is not the place, moreover, to elaborate a justification of such authoritative writers for divulging in their books and treatises the secrets of Lordship and the realities of the Unseen.

It may be permissible for a man to question another to test him in two situations.

The first is when a scholar, compassionate and of good counsel, sees a man so deeply under the sway of self-admiration that he is prevented from seeking knowledge, or from adding to the knowledge which he already has, or from acknowledging the merits of the virtuous; he may then question him—preferably