Gnosis (ma 'rifah)

Pearl of Wisdom

when one of his companions (from the tribe of Kalb) told to him, 'Indeed you have been given knowledge of the Unseen, O Commander of the Faithful', Imam 'Ali: (AS) laughed, saying, ?O brother of Kalb, this is not knowledge of the Unseen, but instruction from the Possessor of Knowledge. Verily the knowledge of the Unseen is the knowledge of the Hour, and what Allah, Glory be to Him, has listed in his verse: Indeed the knowledge of the Hour is with Allah. He sends down the rain, and He knows what is in the wombs.?

Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib [as]

Nahj al-Balagha, Sermon 128

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Gnosis (ma 'rifah)

The person of the gnostic ('arif) is with the people, while his heart is with Allah. If his heart were to forget Allah for the time it takes to blink an eye, he would die of yearning for Him. The gnostic is the trustee over the happenings of Allah, the treasury of His secrets, the repository of his lights, the proof of His mercy to creation, the instrument of His sciences and the measure of His favour and justice.

He needs neither people, nor a goal, or nor this world. He has no intimate except Allah, nor any speech, gesture or breath except by Allah, with Allah, and from Allah, for he frequents the garden of His sanctity and is enriched by His subtlest favours to him. Gnosis is a root whose branch is belief.

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