Revelation 2:23 · World English Bible
I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.
God knows what the soul whispers and is nearer than the jugular vein: the inside is already open A line from the Quran that Sufis return to constantly. Most people keep two accounts of themselves: the one others see, and the one they never say out loud.
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God knows what the soul whispers and is nearer than the jugular vein: the inside is already open A line from the Quran that Sufis return to constantly. Most people keep two accounts of themselves: the one others see, and the one they never say out loud. Being told the second one is already open ends the idea that motives stay nobody's business.
Murāqaba: Living aware that you are seen Al-Ghazali treats this as ordinary daily work in the Revival. Once a person is sure of being seen, the hour alone in a room starts to feel like the hour in front of a crowd. The gap between how they act with witnesses and how they act without any slowly closes.
Actions are judged by the intentions behind them: motive sets the worth of the deed One of the best known sayings of the Prophet. A person can build a long record of good works and expect the list itself to speak for them. Weighing each item by the reason behind it means two people doing the same thing walk away with different results.
Muḥāsaba: Settling accounts with yourself Al-Ghazali pairs this with keeping watch. Dread about a coming reckoning tends to sit in a person and do nothing at all. Someone who goes back over their own day each night, without excuses, names their mistakes while they are still small.
Al-Jalāl: God's majesty, the overwhelming face Ibn Arabi sets this beside jamāl, beauty, as the other face of one and the same. A hard face can make a person feel they have met a different god from the kind one they knew. Holding the two together lets a warning land as care from the same source, not as being thrown away.
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Where is the gap widest between how I act when someone is watching and how I act when nobody is?
He described sitting with the whole day each night before sleep, hiding nothing from himself and weighing why he had done what he did. A person who audits the inside stops needing the outside to grade them.
The opening lines say all we do begins in the mind, and the act carries the quality of the thought that sent it. Two identical deeds with different intentions do not end in the same place.
The rabbis said to keep three things in view: an eye that sees, an ear that hears, and all your deeds written down. Said plainly, there is no unwatched hour in which the private self goes unrecorded.
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