and nothing can save one from being tainted by these forms except restraining the soul from desires turning away from the world and turning with the essence of seriousness to knowledge and piety until his connections to worldly matters are severed while he is in this world and his connection with the matters of the hereafter is strengthened. then when he dies he is like one who has been released from a prison and he who has reached all his demands is his paradise.
ولا ينجي عن التضمخ بهذه الهيئات إلا كف النفس عن الهوى والإعراض عن الدنيا والإقبال بكنه الجد على العلم والتقوى حتى تنقطع علائقه عن الأمور الدنيوية وهو في الدنيا وتستحكم علاقته مع الأمور الأخروية، فإذا مات كان كالمتخلص عن سجن فالواصل إلى جميع مطالبه فهو جنته.