But Suleiman replied, "Jurisprudence tells me what is lawful and unlawful. This book tells me what is real ."
He remained in sajdah until dawn.
Days passed. Suleiman returned to the faqir each evening. They read from Al-Fuyuḍāt al-Rabbāniyya slowly, sometimes spending an hour on a single sentence. The teaching was this: the heart is a vessel. Most people fill it with knowledge, pride, fear, or desire. But the rabbāniyya (Lordly) effusions are already flowing. To receive them, one must empty the vessel — not by destroying the self, but by melting its rigid boundaries. Al-fuyudat Ar-rabbaniyya Arabic Pdf
One day, an elderly blind faqir arrived in the city. He carried nothing but a worn leather satchel. From it, he took a single manuscript: Al-Fuyuḍāt al-Rabbāniyya by al-Bakkāʾī al-Kuntī. The old man said, "This book does not teach you about God. It teaches you how to be dissolved in His effusions." But Suleiman replied, "Jurisprudence tells me what is