Abu Sa'id Ibn AbiL-Khayr.
What a mouthful.
This guy most likely believes in predestination. Which is cool, if that's what you want to believe.
He seems to think that everything is through God. Whether it be actions, thoughts, discoveries, realizations...
Basically, to sum it up, we are helpless. And when we can behold our helplessness is when we will have our desires fall away from us, and we will be free and calm. This is when we will desire what God desires.
I don't know if I buy all of this. I doubt that man will ever desire only what God desires. Isn't there the eternal struggle between the flesh and the spirit? Characteristically, as humans, we seem to be programmed towards our own desires. And though we say that we desire what God desires, I don't know if there is ever complete truth in this. And how can we ever know every one of God's desires?
I liked how he told us that if we wished to draw near to God, then we must seek him in the hearts of men. Hopefully each person contains some sort of holiness within their hearts.
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