Hope is the vision of God in His perfect Beauty. - Abd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin Qushayri

Hope and fear are like the two wings of a bird, when it is flying straight to its destination; of one wing fails its flights fails and if both fails, it dies.

According to the Sufīs Mārīfat is the attitude of the man who acknowledges God in His Names and Attibutes; who is sincere in his actions, who frees himself from the blameworthy traits of character and from weaknesses and lets his heart dwell with God.

Gratitude is the vision of the Gives, not of the gift-it comes from God Himself.