Realization of God

level. Subsequently through a natural process, it pervades his whole personality. The attainment of maarifah for anyone colours his whole personality in its hue. No aspect of his life will remain unaffected by its influence. The journey of maarifah is indeed one of discovery. This discovery continues during the whole of one’s life. One who thinks that he has achieved perfect maarifah would in effect never have discovered maarifah at all. Make God Your Supreme Concern M ost people talk frequently of maarifah without ever having attained it. The reason is that they want maarifah but they are not willing to pay the price for it, and in this world nothing can be achieved without paying the price. What man ought to do is that when he is not ready to pay the price for something he should not talk about it. For talking about something for which he is not willing to pay the price will mean that he is only mouthing words about maarifah without understanding its significance. There is a saying in Arabic: “Knowledge gives you a part of it only when you give yourself to it completely.” (Al Faqih wal Mutafaqqih, Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, vol. 2, p. 204) This is true of maarifah. The price of maarifah is that a person should give his all to it, that he should make