Gnosis Begins by Looking Within
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Ayatullah Muhammad Husayn Thabathaba’i ( q.s. ) said, “When man becomes engaged in looking at the signs of his own soul, and witnesses its poverty to its Lord and its neediness in all stages of its existence, he sees an amazing reality. He finds his soul attached to the Divine Grandeur and Majesty, connected in its existence, life, knowledge, power, hearing, sight, will, love and all its attributes and activities, to the infinite splendor and brilliance, beauty and perfection of the Existence, life, knowledge, power and other perfections.” He continued, “The soul now finds that it is always in private audience with its Lord, even if it happens to be surrounded by a multitude of the people and know no curtain hides Him from it, nor does any screen conceal Him from it; it is the height of gnosis ordained for man.”