or tasted this drink?!

Reason’s utmost advance ends in fetters,
And most of the striving of the learned goes astray.
Our souls are estranged from our bodies,
And our worldly life yields only suffering and ruin.
Throughout our lives, our inquiry has yielded
Nothing but collected claims and counterclaims.

I have examined the methods of speculative theology and the approaches of philosophy, but have not found them to heal the ailing or quench the thirsty. I have found the most direct way to be that of the Quran. Read, concerning affirmation:

‘The Most Merciful rose over the Throne (5)’ [Tā Hā: 5]

‘To Him ascends good speech, and righteous deeds raise it.’ [Fātir: 10]

And read, concerning negation:

‘There is nothing like Him.’ [al-Shūrā: 11]

‘And they do not encompass Him in knowledge (110)’ [Tā Hā: 110]”

Then he said:

“Whoever has experienced what I have experienced will know what I know.”

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