
The author, may God Almighty be pleased with him, used to say that the servant should use his energy to be present in his dreams, so that he is a ruler over his imagination and distracts it with his mind in sleep just as he judges it when he is awake. If the servant attains this presence and becomes a creation for him, he finds the fruit of that in the isthmus and benefits greatly from it, so the servant should be concerned with attaining this amount, for Great benefit, God Almighty willing. He said that Satan persuades a person to move him from obedience to obedience in order to break his resolve thereby. He said that the seeker should, whenever he comes to him, conclude a matter and promise God Almighty that he will leave that matter until his time comes, and if God facilitates his action, he should do it. And if God does not facilitate his action, he will be sincere in breaking the covenant and will not be characterized by breaking the covenant. Al-Maqrizi narrated in the translati