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Conceptual Analysis of Spiritual Life … A.Q Sabbah and H. Bergbauer / (105

                      place? I do not like to be     not  stop,  and  we  said  to  God
                      here,  I  like  to  be  with   again,   your  separation  is
                      you, I like to be by your      difficult for us, and in order to
                      side  in  the  place  to       make     this    distance    and

                      which  I  belong  and  I       separation easier for us, and for
                      was created for his sake,      the same parting to be a reason
                      in  a  seat  of  sincerity     for our integration and reaching
                      with a mighty King.            the  goal  for  which  we  were
                                                     created,  God  placed  the  kind
                  So  God  said  to  us  in  the     Imam  as  his  representative  on

               tongue of appreciation and the        earth  as  his  successor;  the
               statement  of  the  prophets:  My     imam who is the face of God so
               beloved,  calm  down.  It  is         that  whenever  we  yearn  for
               decided  in  this  world  that  the   God  we  look  to  him  so  that
               circle    of   your     existence     meeting him is a cause for our
               expands, so that you may enjoy        peace and rejoicing, It is clear

               meeting me in that world in the       that a person who was created
               most  complete  way,  that  is,       for  the  sake  of  God  does  not
               what has decided in this world        find  peace  in  his  heart  except
               that the pain of my parting is a      by being close to God.
               reason  for  your  integrity  and        This  long  wait  to  meet  him,
               the  vastness  of  your  soul  and    waiting  for  our  liberation;  but
               the breadth of your vessels, so       we  were  born  in  a  time  where

               that  in  that  world  and  in  the   the face of God and his guardian
               confines  of  meeting  God,  you      was hidden behind the curtain of
               may know God and see Him.             backbiting  and  from  here  we
                  Although  we  listened  to         have  the  right  to  increase  our
               these  words,  our  weeping  did
                                                     objection  to  separation  and  our
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