Conclusion
Conclusion
[Five paragraphs which silenced the Old Said’s rebellious, proud, vain, conceited, and hypocritical soul, and compelled it to submit.]
#### First Paragraph
FIRST PARAGRAPH: Since things exist and they are full of art, they surely have a maker. As is decisively proved in the Twenty-Second Word, if everything is not one person’s, then each thing becomes as difficult and problematical as all things. Since someone made the earth and the heavens and created them, for sure that most wise and skilful Being would not leave to others living beings, which are the fruits, results, and aims of the heavens and the earth, and so spoil his work. Making it futile and without purpose, He would not hand over all His wise works to others; He would not give their thanks and worship to others.
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SECOND PARAGRAPH: O my conceited soul! You resemble a grape-vine. Don’t be proud! The vine itself did not attach the bunches of grapes; someone else attached them.
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THIRD PARAGRAPH: O my hypocritical soul! Do not become vain, saying: “I have served religion.” According to what the saying signifies, “God strengthens this religion by means of sinful men,” [^6] it was because you were not purified. Indeed, you should know yourself to be such a sinful man, and that your duty and worship is thanks for past bounties. For these are the function of your nature, incumbent on you due to your creation, and the result of art; know this and be saved from vanity and hypocrisy!
[^6]:Bukhārī, Jihād, 182; Maghāzī, 38; Qadar, 35; Muslim, Īmān, 178; Ibn Māja, Fitan, 35; Dārimī, Siyar, 73; Musnad, ii, 309; v, 45.
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FOURTH PARAGRAPH: If you want knowledge of reality and true wisdom, gain knowledge of Almighty God. For the realities of beings are rays of the divine name of Truth and the manifestations of His names and attributes. The reality of all things, whether physical, non-physical, essential, non-essential, and the reality of all human beings, is based on a name and relies on its reality. Things are not merely insignificant forms without reality. There is a brief discussion of this mystery at the end of the Twentieth Word. O my soul! If you long for the life of this world and flee death, know certainly that the conditions you suppose to be life are only the