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http://www.rosanna.com/saki/december/december24.htm
Bowl of Saqi for December 24
FAILURE, EITHER IN HEALTH OR AFFAIRS,
MEANS THERE HAS BEEN LACK OF SELF-CONTROL.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis:
Nufs is unable to direct affairs. Nufs has no wisdom, cannot
see ahead. Nufs urges one to eat delicate food but sees no
illness resulting. Nufs caters to passions and does not
recognize weakness until too late. Nufs surrenders to vice
and puts the blame elsewhere. A person under the sway of nufs
seldom attains success and quickly loses the greatest
success no matter what pain and sacrifice were undergone in
the attainment.
Self-control surely wins success in the end, for body, mind
and heart follow the true course. By it, one shapes the mind
first and the destiny afterwards. That is true freedom of
Will that achieves success in relation to the ideal.
Nufs....
http://www.rosanna.com/sufiwritings/glossary/glossary.htm
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