4.1.THE LEVELS OF THE PEOPLE OF FAITH
So those who are from the people of faith, those who taste from the sweetness of faith and its delight, they are of three levels:
• THE FIRST LEVEL: He who knows it, like the one whose teacher has informed him of it and he believes his teacher. Or he has been informed what those who are knowledgeable have conveyed of it about themselves. Or he sees effects of their conditions that point to it.
• THE SECOND LEVEL: The one who witnesses it and observes it, like witnessing the situation of the people known for knowledge (marifa), truthfulness (sidq) and certainty (yaqiri) what he knows of their experiences and discoveries. Even Though in reality he did not witness what they have discovered and experienced, he witnessed what indicates it. He is closer than the one who was informed or who inferred based on its effects.
• THE THIRD LEVEL: To experience for himself what he used to hear of, as some scholars said, “I was in a state I say of it: If the people of Paradise in Paradise are in a state like this, truly they are in a good life.” And another one said, “There are times when joy would make the heart dance.” And another said, “For the people of the night4 their nights are more pleasurable than (the pleasure of) the people of amusement in their amusement.”
By Shaykhu’l-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah
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