The Key To The Infinite Treasury

Progress is not as the people of misguidance imagine, to plunge into the life of this world in all its minute details and in order to taste every sort of pleasure, even the basest, make subject to the evilcommanding soul all the subtle faculties and the heart and intellect, and make them assist it; to do this is not progress, it is decline.

Thus, if man relies on his ego, and making worldly life his goal, attempts to taste temporary pleasures while struggling to make his living, he becomes submerged within an extremely constricted sphere, then departs.

Whereas if he knows himself to be a guest and spends the capital of his life within the sphere of permission of the Generous One of Whom he is the guest, he will strive for a long, eternal life within a broad sphere, then take his rest and ease.

And later, he may rise to the highest of the high.

Man is a traveler. The journey was the journey which passes from the World of Spirits, through the mother’s womb, youth, old age, the grave, the Intermediate Realm, the resurrection, and the Bridge of Sirat towards eternity.

For sure you are as though nothing with respect to your soul and form, but from the point of view of duty and rank, you are an observant spectator of this majestic universe, an eloquent, articulate tongue of these beings so full of wisdom, a discerning reader of this book of the universe, a supervisor of these creatures full of wonder at their glorifications, and like a foreman of these beings full of respect for their worship.

İhsan was very happy to have gone to the library that day; many of his questions had been answered at once. When the librarian announced that the library was closing, İhsan put the book back where he had taken it from and excitedly wished for tomorrow to come as soon as possible. Reading was wonderful; he understood himself and the world better now. He decided to continue reading so that the feelings in his heart would become better and more lasting....