We restrict what our souls say and what they care about in addition to our words and actions. I used to hold myself accountable like them at that time, and I would bring the notebook and demand of her everything that came to her and what she told [Page 212 of the Cairo edition]
herself and what appeared. For the sense of that in terms of saying and doing, and what you intended in that thought and conversation, so I said thoughts and curiosity, except for what is meant. This is the benefit of this chapter and the benefit of preoccupying yourself with the intention, and there is nothing in the way that is overlooked in most of this chapter, for that is due to paying attention to the breaths, which are dear.
[ The heart of Yunus or the second birth ]
And after I introduced you to the origins of this sect and what is the reason for their preoccupation with this and that they have a legal matter and what secrets they have in that And knowledge, so know also their position in that and what they have. This group is on the heart of Yunus, peace be upon him, because when he went away angry and thought that God would not be difficult for him because of the vastness of God’s mercy he had witnessed in him, and he did not see that divine, merciful breadth towards others, then his nation got it and he confined it to himself, and anger is the darkness of the heart. So I was impressed by the apparent highness of his position, so he lived in the darkness of the belly of the whale as long as God wished, so that God would alert him to his condition when he was a fetus in his mother’s womb. Who was managing him there and was he in that?