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On Informing the Heart

(Obtained from the Fiqh Masterclass)

A cordial discipline of worship, especially the invoking worship, is informing [tafhim]. It is to take the heart, at the beginning, as a child not yet able to speak, and is wanted to be taught. So, each of the invocations, recitations, facts and secrets of worship is to be taught to the heart with strict accuracy and effort, and whatever the degree of perfection, one has to teach to the heart the facts which he has so far recognized. read more

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