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32 AN INTRODUCTION TO SUFI DOCTRINE

the most lofty station of the soul is not a psychological
correlative of knowledge like prudence or veracity but
is integral love, the complete absorption of the human
will by the Divine attraction. It is the state of being
“lost in love ”” of which Abraham is the human proto-
type. (Cf. Ibn ‘Arabi: Fusis al-Hikam).