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               unite with them and reasoning             3.  The human adorns himself
               is  done.  (Sadr  ul-Din  Shirazi,           with  divine  forms  and
               1981, Vol. 1: 228)                           good attributes at this stage.
                  As  a  result,  the  soul’s            4.  At   this   stage,    the
               perfection is directly related to            annihilation  of  the  soul
               the  type  of  perception,  and              in its essence occurs. In

               more divine and abstract perceptions         this  way,  egoism  and
               cause spiritual perfection to be             conceit  disappear,  and
               faster and more intense.                     he  puts  aside  himself
                                                            and  looks  only  at  the
                   •  The Perfection of Practical           Almighty God. (Sadr ul-Din
                      Reason
               He  then  deals  with  the                   Shirazi, 1996: 207)

               perfection  of  practical  reason        The  fourth  stage  is  the  last
               in  four  stages  and  makes  the     stage and level of the reason of
               following recommendations:            the knowledge, and the mystic
                   1.  doing religious and divine    reaches the God. This stage is
                      rules and regulations that     not  the  end  of  the  mystic’s
                      edify  the  appearance  of     journey;  there  are  journeys

                      the soul.                      such  as  the  “journey  in  the
                   2.  If the first stage is done    God”  and  the  “journey  from
                      correctly,  that  is,  if  the   the God”, but  we can not talk
                      divine  commands  are          about  them  because  the  only
                      followed, the human will       way to understand and achieve
                      achieve  the  edification      them  is  by  presence  and
                      of  the  heart  in  the        observation.
                      second stage.
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