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« brance of God or His service (khidma) by some phenomenon, or something for the sake of his lust (shayʾan li-shahwatihi),3 [if then] he experiences [thereby] exultation (nashāṭ) in his devotions, he is deluded (makhdūʿ),ʿsave in [those religious duties] which God, Mighty and Majestic is He, accepts. It has been related that once [when he was ailing] Salmān was visited by Saʿd b. Abī Waqqāṣ. Salmān wept, so Saʿd asked him, ‘What could be making you weep, O Abū ʿAbd Allāh, when our Master the Messenger of God  was content with you when he died, and you will meet your companions again and will drink from his pool?’4 Salmān said, ‘I do not weep out of fear »