Sháb Walí Ullah are the following, which we give as indicating the line of thought which is considered most devotional and spiritual by Muslim mystics:—
1. Surat-ul-Hadíd (lvii.), 3.
"He (God) is first. He is last. The Manifest, and the Hidden, and who knoweth all things."
2. Surat-ul-Hadíd (lvu.), 4.
"He (God) is with you wheresoever ye be."
3. Surat-ul-Qáf (l.), 16.
"We (God) are closer to him (man) than his neck vein.'
4. Surat-ul-Baqr (ii.), 109.
"Whichever way ye turn, there is the face of God.'
5. Surat-un-Nisá (iv.), 125.
"God encompasseth all things."
6. Surat-ur-Rahman (lv.), 7.
"All on earth shall pass away, but the face of thy God shall abide resplendent with majesty and glory."
Some teachers tell their disciples that the heart has two doors, that which is fleshly, and that which is spiritual; and that the zikr-i-jalí has been established for the opening of the former, and zikr-i-khafí for the latter, in order that they may both be enlightened.
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