(The Difference Between Insight and Sight, and the Intended Meaning of Play and Children) And the brother of insights is present and alert*** standing apart from the company of the blind, he ascends to that
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The Shaykh :"And the brother of insights is present and alert*** standing apart from the company of the blind"
The student: ...
The Shaykh : Yes, "brother of insights" is the plural of insight, and insight is the sight of the heart, while sight is the sight of the eye. So those who have insight are present, alert, and standing apart from the company of the blind.
"He ascends to that highest companion, the most elevated one, and he left the play for the children"
The highest companion is Paradise and the bliss of the Hereafter.
"*** and he left the play for the children"
Play is the worldly life[Muhammad 47:36] and His saying: "for the children"
He means by them children in intellect, not children in age. They are old men, but their intellects are the intellects of children.
The student: ...
The Shaykh : Yes, "brother of insights" is the plural of insight, and insight is the sight of the heart, while sight is the sight of the eye. So those who have insight are present, alert, and standing apart from the company of the blind.
"He ascends to that highest companion, the most elevated one, and he left the play for the children"
The highest companion is Paradise and the bliss of the Hereafter.
"*** and he left the play for the children"
Play is the worldly life
[This] worldly life is only amusement and diversion
إنما الحياة الدنيا لعِب ولهوHe means by them children in intellect, not children in age. They are old men, but their intellects are the intellects of children.