Silence Your Heart – Abdur Rahman’s Corner

Peace, one and all…

O you who desire the spiritual abodes of the Substitutes,
without aspiring to the requisite actions,

Do not hanker after them in vain, for you cannot be one of
them without emulating their spiritual states.

Silence your heart, seclude yourself from all that brings you
down to other than the Beloved Master,

Be wakeful and hunger. Thus shall you be given their station
and their company, in all your coming and going.

The House of Sainthood has various pillars, and our masters
who live there are of the Substitutes.

Amidst silence and seclusion unceasing, hunger and vigilance,
live those of pure virtue and noble eminence!

Ibn Arabi, The Four Pillars of Spiritual Transformation