Suhrawardi - Three Treatises on Mysticism.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

4. God is Omniscient ;
and man must try to comprehend
His qualities.
5. Comprehension of Divine Qualities is
possible
through self-purification and renunciation.
6. No one can harm a sufi; and he enjoys the tortures
to which he is subjected.
7. To save himself from troubles the sufi should not
express all that is in his ken as only a few can understand
those conceptions.
8. One who forgets God forgets everything, and God
alone can guide him back to the right
path.
9. Divine favours are proportionate to human labours,
and the utmost exertions are met with unbounded
munificence.
10. God is free from directions.
11. Self-mortification is the only road to self-emancipation.
12. God alone will remain for ever; all else is
transitory.
Only one manuscript of the "Language of the Ants"
is known which is extant in Constantinople, Aya Sofya No.
4821, foil 88-97. It was written in 677 A. H. This MS. of
mixed contents contains also other tracts e. g.,
SUHRAWERDI'S
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