given priority over the most momentous of worldly affairs. Taking one small point from such a hint of the Absolute Master (UWBP), we follow it with all our strength and spirit.

Secondly: In many places of his Jaljalūtiyya and at the end of it, Imam 'Ali (May God be pleased with him), the champion of Islam, asked for a protector, so that heedlessness should not encroach on his sense of the divine presence during the five daily prayers, He beseeched the divine court for a protecting spirit being, solely so that an assault by his enemies should not occur to him and the thought of his very numerous enemies attacking him should not hinder his sense of the divine presence during the Prayers.

Thus, this wretched brother of yours, whose life at this time is afflicted with self-advertisement, learnt these two small points from the Reason for the World's Creation (UWBP and the Champion of Islam. Attaching importance to the Qur'an's mysteries, which are so necessary at this time, he did not think of protecting his own life in battle, and expounded one fine point of one letter of the Qur'an.

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