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Summarizing the speech we say:

A desire may grow inside the spirit of the believer, yet the stain of perfection which his spirit was colored with before on the Night of Valuation makes him turn to his Provider for help asking to show him the reality of this desire and the badness it contains. Then, the Soul is brought down upon his heart, viz the angels bring him that divine light from his Lord to show him the fact he asks for, and when he refers to the Qur’an he finds the verse confirming what he has witnessed and seen: thereby so his heart becomes assured and his spirit tends to the right with love.

The noble Prophet (cpth) says: “None of you shall believe unless his whim agrees with that I have brought.”[7]

And God says in a Holy Speech: “The obedient follower keeps drawing nearer to Me by supererogatory performances until I like him. When I do, I shall be his hearing he hears by, his sight he sees by and his tongue he speeks by.”[8]

The second part of this saying is mentioned in another saying in other words "...When I do, I will be a hearing and a sight for him. By Me he hears, by Me he sees, and by Me he speaks.”

Thus, anyone that takes God’s speech as a guide in all his affairs, certainly feels with safety and assurance in all his movement, and that whose lamp is God’s Light, certainly enjoys a life filled with happiness and peace.

God revealed that when He says: