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INTRODUCTION
| Part IV. | |
| 1. | Repentance. |
| 2. | Patience and Thanksgiving. |
| 3. | Hope and Fear. |
| 4. | The Poor and the Hermit. |
| 5. | Unity of God, and Dependence on Him, |
| 6. | On Love, Ecstasy, and Joyous Submission to His will. |
| 7. | On Intention, Sincerity and Truth. |
| 8. | Meditation. |
| 9. | Contemplation and taking a Warning. |
| 10. | On Death and the After-Life. |
Against the philosophers he argued for the belief in the reality of the divine attributes and against the view of the eternity of the world. He contended against the theory that there would be no physical punishments and rewards hereafter, maintaining, as he did, the doctrine of the resurrection of the body. He virtually denied that there is real causal connection in events as experienced by us; but only
