has failed to bear it. Lean upon none other than God, and be satisfied with God in your asking, and you will attain felicity, God willing.
Contentment has six hundred and fifty-two degrees according to the knowers among the people of intimacy and union; two hundred and fifty-seven according to the knowers among the people of courtesy and standing; six hundred and twenty-one according to the people of blame among the people of intimacy and union; and two hundred and twenty-six according to the people of blame among those of courtesy and standing. Contentment has a claim and two relations: one to the world of omnipotence and one to the unseen dominion. It has no outward relation to the visible kingdom, but an inward relation to it, made apparent by that asking. This much suffices concerning it. God grants success.
Chapter One Hundred and Seventeen: On the Station of Greed and Avidity for Increase beyond Sufficiency
Never be content with anything beneath Him;
be greedy, for you are innately fashioned for greed.
Be avid in seeking the heights, and attain them:
one sleeping through them is not like one awake.
Notes
Translator’s note TN4105-1: The degrees are retained as supplied: 652, 257, 621, and 226 for the four groups. Sharah, greed, and hirs, avidity, begin the next chapter as innate attributes whose evaluation depends on their objects.
