[74] Usually Fana is translated as “annihilation,” but Al Ghazzali here means what is implied in the statement: “To live, move, and have our being in Him”.

[75]

“And thou shalt one day, if found worthy, so defined

See thy God face to face, as thou dost now.”

Byron Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. CLV.

[76] Quran XXIX. 65-66.

[77] Quran XVIII. 109. Compare Jalal-ud-Din Rumi:—

Air, earth, water, and fire are God’s servants.

To us they seem lifeless, but to God living.

In God’s presence fire ever waits to do its service,