...seclusion: finding the sweetness of action, and vigor in supplication with sadness of heart, entreaty, and submissiveness. And love of seclusion stirs up: contentment, reliance upon God, satisfaction with mere sufficiency, and self-sufficiency through chastity from people. And love of seclusion stirs up: the soul's aversion to the world, and longing for the meeting with God, Mighty and Majestic, and that comes by way of thinking well of God and fear of loss in religion. And love of seclusion stirs up: the life of the heart, the brightness of its light, the sharpness of its insight regarding the flaws of the world, and its awareness of decrease and increase in one's religion. And love of seclusion stirs up: treating people with fairness, acknowledging the truth, humbling the self through modesty, and abandoning aggression.

And love of seclusion stirs up: fear of the onset of tribulations in which lies the loss of religion, and longing for death out of fear lest Islam be stripped away. And love of seclusion stirs up: feeling alien toward people, finding their speech burdensome, and finding comfort in the speech of the Lord of the worlds, which is the Qur'an that God has made a light and a healing for the believers, and a proof and a bane upon the hypocrites. So make it your sanctuary to which you resort, your fortress by which you hold fast, your cave to which you shelter, your guide by which you are guided, your inner garment, your outer garment, your methodology, and your path. And if the ways become confused to you, matters become ambiguous to you, you become bewildered in your affair, and your chest becomes constricted thereby, then return to the wonders of the Qur'an in which there is no bewilderment. Stop at its indications of encouragement and intimidation, promise and threat, and longing, and at that to which God has urged the believers of obedience and leaving disobedience, for you will emerge from your bewilderment, turn back from your ignorance, find comfort after your solitude, and become strong after your weakness. So let it be your guide rather than created beings, and you will triumph with the triumphant. And do not chant it hastily like the chanting of poetry; stop at its wonders, and whatever is obscure to you, refer it to its Knower. And there is no power except through God, the High, the Supreme. (1)