Gnosis (Marifat) is fire and faith light, gnosis is ecstasy and faith a gift. He differentiates between the believer and gnostic saying that the believer sees by the light of God and the gnostic sees by means of God Himself, and the believer has a heart, but the gnostic has no heart.

— Abu Nasr as-Sarraj The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

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