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               58  International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE. 8 (27): 53-74, Summer 2021
                      water  from  the  sky  and     by    disobeying     dictate   of
                      made  it  flow  as  springs    passions by constant efforts and
                      out  of  the  earth?”      struggling  against  the  soul,  so
                      (Az-Zumar: 21)                 that he does not find in himself
                                                     any  embarrassment  from  that.
                  The  wayfaring  technically        (Kashani, 2005, Vol. 2: 435)
               means  refinement  of  morals,
               actions  and  knowledge  by           Human Being and Humiliation

               working  on  the  worshiper’s         There  are  many  verses  in  the
               inner and outer   The worshiper       Quran  deal  with  dhull.  This
                               .
               in  all  of  that  is  occupied  with   word  appears  in  the  Noble
               himself  by  refining  his  inward    Quran 24 times with its various
               to prepare himself for reaching       derivatives, including the Almighty’s
               God.  This  arrival  will  be         saying relating to parents:

               achieved  when  the  manifestation           “Lower to them the wing
               of the Truth is revealed to him              of  humility  and  say,
               and he becomes absorbed in it.               "Lord, have  mercy upon
               Then,  When  he  looks  at  his              them  as  they  cherished
               knowledge  knows  nothing  but               me  in  my  childhood”.
               Allah,  and  when  he  sees  his             (Al-Isra: 24)
               force of spiritual decision, sees
               nothing  but  Allah.  (Qunawi,           Dhull  or  humility  in  this

               2002, Vol. 2: 425)                    verse  is  not  in  the  familiar
                  Suluk is the ascension in the      meaning  of  prostration  and
               stations  of  nearness  to  the       indignity,  But  it  carries  the
               presences of Allah, actually and      meaning of kindness and mercy
               spiritually,  by  refining  the       towards  them,  in  other  words,
               human  being’s  inner  and  outer     Lord  refers  to  the  way  that
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