How to be Free from Sin — Page 28
28 tongue of taste, and your hands and feet of vigour. Cut yourselves off from this world so that you may forge a connection with the Celestial One. Prevent your heart from moving in one direction so that it may move towards the other. Throw away the impurities of this world so that the shining jewel of heaven may be granted to you. Return to your origin and to the purity of your father Adam at the time of his birth, so that you, too, may be granted sover- eignty over all things. The day is drawing to a close and sun is about to set. You still have time if you wish to see, or you may be too late. Before you depart [from this world], send before you good things to eat rather than stones and bricks; and send forth clothes to wear, instead of thorns and rags. God, Who produces milk in the mother’s breast even before a child is born, has sent for your sake, in your own age and your own country, one who will feed you like a mother. He shall feed you the milk of conviction, which is whiter than the sun and more exhilarating than any wine. If you have any life in you and are not dead, then rush towards him so that you may drink this fresh milk. Throw out the stale milk which has become infected with bacteria, for it cannot bring you life, and will only make you sick the moment it enters your body, for it has become a poison. Do not look adorningly at everything that is white; black is sometimes better. Black hair, for instance, reflects the vigour of youth, while white hair signifies frailty, weak- ness, and old age. In the same way, the 'whiteness' of ostentation and showing off one’s virtue is of no avail,