Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani -Quotations from Jala'al khawatir

Jala' al-Khawatir (The Removal of Cares) The Fourty-Fourth Discourse A certain righteous man is reported as having said: "The hypocrite [munafiq] remains in one and the same spiritual condition for forty years at a stretch, while the champion of truth [siddiq] experiences transformation forty times every single day." The hypocrite is totally involved with his lower self [nafs], his passions [hawa], his natural inclinations [tab'], his devil [shaitan] and his interest in the things of this world [dunya]. He is committed to their service, from which he never takes a break. He is never known to disagree with their point...

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