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MURAD AND MALAMITA
disciple will always regard his or her will as having a separate, independent existence. Indeed, a traveller is willing (murid) at the beginning of the way and willed (murad) at the end of it. Murid is one willing while searching the ways to be loved / desired and Murad or willed when seeing an imprint of Him on everything and weaving a lacework of spiritual pleasure with the threads of knowledge and love of God. One important source from which willpower is fed is the traveller’s care and sensitivity in fulfilling his or her responsibilities and constant supplication to God. Moreover, it depends on the traveller’s perseverance in extra acts or duties of worship so that God may become his or her eyes with which to see, ears with which to hear, and hands with which to grasp.
Eternity, in addition to meaning eternal life in the Hereafter, is also used to describe the expansion of feelings, emotions, and reflections that one feels inwardly. An individual has infinite, eternal desires and ambitions, and he or she can experience in his or her heart the (eternal) pleasures of Paradise and of being loved by God and loving Him. To them the only utility of God is when they are in distress or misery. They expect Him on such occasions to attend to their call to remove their troubles. They
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