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Our most dreadful disease and calamity is criticism based on jarbaza and pride. If justice utilises criticism, it peels the haqiqah. However, when pride wields it, it destroys and shatters the haqiqah. If it enters into the aqâid of îmân and matters of religion, it is the most terrible of this terrible type of criticism. For îmân is both affirmation, idh'ân, iltizâm, submission (taslîm) and ma’nawî obedience. This type of criticism destroys the obedience, iltizâm and idh'ân. Concerning affirmation, it causes the person to remain impartial. In this time of doubt and wahm, it is necessary to look favourably on the positive thoughts and encouraging statements that emerge from luminous, warm hearts and that cultivate and strengthen idh'ân and iltizâm. What they call "impartial reasoning" is a temporary irreligiousness. Those newly granted hidâyah or those new to seeking the haqq do it.
1 وَالَّذِى عَلَّمَ الْقُرْاٰنَ الْمُعْجِزَ اِنَّ نَظَرَ الْبَشِيرِ النَّذِيرِ وَبَصِيرَتَهُ النَّقَّادَةَ اَدَقُّ وَاَجَلَّ وَاَجْلَى وَاَنْفَذُ مِنْ اَنْ يَلْتَبِسَ اَوْ تَشْتَبِهَ عَلَيْهِ الْحَقِيقَةُ بِالْخَيَالِ وَاِنَّ مَسْلَكَهُ الْحَقَّ اَغْنَى وَاَنْزَهُ وَاَرْفَعُ مِنْ اَنْ يُدَلِّسَ اَوْ يُغَالِطَ عَلَى النَّاسِ
For the eye that sees the haqiqah cannot be deceived, and a heart that worships the haqq does not deceive.
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1 (And the One who taught the miraculous Quran, the gaze of the Bearer of good tidings and warnings (Bashîr and Nadhîr), and His basîrah are more accurate, more noble, more clear and more penetrating than allowing haqiqah to be confused with imagination. And His path of haqq is richer, purer and more elevated than to deceive or mislead people.)