And here we have expressed to you the conditions of the men of this chapter and what asceticism produced for them in people and what they found from the soul of the Most Gracious. Therefore, and to this extent, the actions of all the limbs are united by abandoning curiosity in each limb for what it deserves, both outwardly and inwardly. The first of them is the limbs and the highest in the inward part is thought, so it does not contemplate what it deserves. It does not help him, for that leads him to obsession, wishful thinking, and lack of competition in having the intention to perform acts of worship. A person’s thoughts are never free of one of two things, either about what he has in this world or about what he does not have of it. If he thinks about what he has, then there is no cure for him according to the sect except to depart from it and asceticize in it. This was stated by Abu Hamid and others, and if he thinks about what he does not have, then according to the sect, he i