The answer: The people of the path use the word “spirit” in different meanings, and they say: “So and so has a spirit,” meaning a divine command that gives life to whoever performs it, meaning his heart. They use the word “spirit” to refer to the one about whom the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, was asked, and they use “spirit” and they mean by it. The spirit that is breathed into when creation is perfected and upon which the path turns is the spirit that the people of God find when they turn to Him with concern and worship. Most of the people often ask about it, so their saying is, “What is the beginning of the spirit,” that is, what is the beginning of its occurrence in the heart of the knower .

So you say that the beginning of the spirit is in the souls of its people whom God has qualified to attain it. If the soul of the Most Merciful controls their souls, the struggles that give them the vision of others are naked from the vision of God in them, and that they are an obstacle and a barrier between God and this servant, so the one who carries out this struggle will be the one who is gripped by anxiety, grief, and a veil that he wants to lift. Then the soul of the Most Merciful God bestowed upon him within his inner being what would lead him to see the face of truth in these partitions, as he claims, and in these veils and things that he struggles with himself to cut off whatever he encounters on his way, so that soul shows him the face of truth in everything, which is the eye and the one whose presence protects him, but he did not see it. Something outside the truth, so his fatigue disappears in that he wants to cut it off, and then he suffers severe pain as he imagines

The answer is to study the matter by understanding it from every aspect. Unless that is the case, then tranquility is not valid. Abraham, peace be upon him, said, “Show me how you revive the dead.” He said, “Do you not believe?” He said, “Yes,” but to reassure my heart. So he made reassurance the beginning of tranquility when it differed. The faces of living things were upon him, and they were attracting him from every direction. When God showed him how, he calmed down from the anxiety he had found because of the attraction of the different faces.

Some of them said

I am only afraid of what I fear *** If it comes, then what do I have to worry about?

Likewise, I covet for what I seek *** and if it is lost, then what is mine and covetousness

The attainment of what is desired or the despair of attaining it is the beginning of tranquility in what one seeks, and likewise in what befits it, there is what one fears. Know that

So if a person completes the conditions of faith and masters them, then the truth will be revealed to the heart of this believer who has this quality. That manifestation is called a taste, which is the beginning of placing tranquility in his heart, so that this tranquility will be for him a door or ladder to the occurrence of an unseen matter in which he will have faith, and with it will be the presence of tranquility for what He gave him the first command because it becomes a habitual matter, such as the quiescence of one who traces causes to causes, and this is not originally from the unseen, but rather from taste, which is observation. If a person has the sustenance for his day, his soul will be calm when it gives him the anxiety of his day to see what he has by obtaining it under his control, so if faith occurs in him in this way. Under his rule, he is the possessor of tranquility, and if a person is under the rule of faith, his eyes dispute with him, then tranquility is not a

And know that the meanings that characterize hearts may be made by God as a sign of their occurrence in the souls of whomsoever of His servants He wishes for them to be attained by signs from outside. That sign is called by the name of that meaning that obtains in Himself from God. Rather, He names it by it so that it is known that that sign is due to the occurrence of this meaning. It was installed, like the Almighty’s saying, in the ark of the children of Israel: God has placed in it a sakina, which is an image in the shape of an animal. People differed as to which .