If you desire purification of the heart then shut your eye from the corporeal world. This is the hole through which heart is defiled. - Shaqiq al-Balkhi

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If you desire purification of the heart then shut your eye from the corporeal world. This is the hole through which heart is defiled.

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About Shaqiq al-Balkhi

Shaqiq al-Balkhi (d. 810) was an early Sufi saint of the Khorasan school. Tradition makes him the disciple of Ibrahim ibn Adham. He emphasized the importance of tawakkul or reliance upon God.

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God hath made the pious living in their death and hath made the wicked dead during their lives, i.e., the pious, though they be dead, yet live, since the angels utter blessings on their piety until they are made immortal by the recompense which they receive at the Resurrection.
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