How Shaykh Rajab Attained a High Spiritual Rank

"In my youth, a beautiful daughter of my relatives fell in love with me, and eventually found me alone in a desolate place.

I said to myself: 'Rajab Ali! God can test you many times; why do not you test God once!? Restrain from this pleasurable unlawful act for the sake of God!'

'Then I said to God': "O God! I refrain from this sin; and You train me for Your own in return!"

Thereupon, like the Prophet Yusuf (a), he bravely resisted falling into the sinful temptation, evaded the enticement, and promptly rushed away from the risky snare.

This self-control and avoidance of committing sin led him to insight and intuition; his otherworldly vision enlightened, seeing and hearing what others could not see and hear. He got such clear insight that whenever he went out of his house he would see some people as they really were, and some mysteries were revealed to him.

Excerpt from the book 'Elixir of Love' by Muhammad Reyshahri