First Note

I addressed myself saying: O heedless Said! Know that it is not worthy of you to attach your heart to something that will not accompany you after this world comes to an end and will part from you on its destruction. It is not reasonable to fasten your heart to transitory things which will turn their backs on you and leave you when the age in which you live comes to an end, and not befriend you on the journey through the Intermediate Realm, nor accompany you to the door of the grave, and which, leaving you for ever after one or two years, will burden you with their sins and out of spite abandon you at the moment of accomplishment.

If you are sensible, you will leave matters that will be shattered and destroyed under the blows of worldly revolutions and the stages of the Intermediate Realm and clashing upheavals of the Hereafter; which are not able to accompany and befriend you on the journey to eternity. Do not give them importance. Do not grieve at their passing.

Consider your own nature; among your subtle faculties is one that is such that it cannot be content with anything other than eternity and the Eternal One. It cannot address itself to any other than Him. It cannot demean itself for them. Should you give it the whole world, it would not satisfy that innate need. It is the sovereign of your senses and faculties. So obey that sovereign, which is obedient to the All-Wise Creator’s command, and find salvation!