"... The inward purity is of greatest importance. The Prophet therefore said: 'Angels do not enter a house wherein there are dogs.' The human mind is a house, the abode of angels, the place of their movements. The blameworthy evils like anger, lust, rancour, envy, pride, conceit and the like are dogs. When dogs reside in a heart, where is the place for the angels? God takes the secrets of knowledge to the hearts through the angels. They do not take it except to the pure souls. Hazrat Ibn Mas'ud said: 'Knowledge is not acquired through much learning. It is a light cast in the heart.' A certain sage said: 'Knowledge is God-fear, as God said: The learned among the people fear God most.'"
(Source: Imam Ghazali's Ihya Ulum-id-Deen)
Indeed, to know God, that is the aim;
to obey his commandments,
to purify my heart and soul,
to fill my actions with virtues,
the stepping stone.
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