(Explanation of the defect of the polytheist) But no one approaches your gate *** unless he comes with an intercessor who helps
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The Shaykh :"But no one approaches your gate *** unless he comes with an intercessor who helps"
Here lies the defect of the polytheists. They said: It is necessary that there be intercessors between us and Allah, because His gate is great, and no one enters it except with a helping intercessor.
"No one approaches your gate *** unless he comes with an intercessor who helps
and humbles himself" meaning: and unless he humbles himself
"before the gatekeeper and the screen *** and the intercessors are the people of nearness and benevolence"
Meaning: No one enters your gate except with an intercessor, an intercessor before whom the seeker who seeks nearness to Him humbles himself. So his saying: "and humbles himself" is conjoined to "and comes", meaning: and unless he comes, and unless he humbles himself before the gatekeeper, the screen, and the intercessors who are the people of nearness and benevolence.
Here lies the defect of the polytheists. They said: It is necessary that there be intercessors between us and Allah, because His gate is great, and no one enters it except with a helping intercessor.
"No one approaches your gate *** unless he comes with an intercessor who helps
and humbles himself" meaning: and unless he humbles himself
"before the gatekeeper and the screen *** and the intercessors are the people of nearness and benevolence"
Meaning: No one enters your gate except with an intercessor, an intercessor before whom the seeker who seeks nearness to Him humbles himself. So his saying: "and humbles himself" is conjoined to "and comes", meaning: and unless he comes, and unless he humbles himself before the gatekeeper, the screen, and the intercessors who are the people of nearness and benevolence.