be peace—to his polytheistic people:

“Have you considered what you have been worshipping,
you and your forefathers?
They are enemies to me, except the Lord of all worlds.”

The Exalted also says:

“You will not find people who believe in Allah and the Last Day showing affection to those who oppose Allah and His Messenger, even if they were their fathers, their sons, their brothers, or their kindred. Those are the ones in whose hearts He has inscribed faith and whom He has strengthened with a spirit from Him.”

Some of these people have written books and poems expounding their doctrine, such as Ibn al-Fārid’s poem entitled Nazm al-Sulūk (The Spiritual Path in Verse), in which he says:

“To her I offer my prayer at the station,
and in it I witness that she has prayed to me.
The two of us are a single worshipper, prostrating
to his own reality, in union, with every prostration.
None but I has prayed to me;
nor, in performing each unit of prayer, was my prayer to another.”

Further on, he says:

“I have always been her, and she has always been me;
there is no difference—rather, my essence has loved my essence.
As a messenger to myself, I was sent from myself,
and my essence found proof of me in my signs.
If I was called upon, I was the one who answered;
and if I was summoned, she answered whoever called me and responded.”

And other words of this kind. For this reason, when the author of these words was dying, he recited the following verses: