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music of the birds over your head. But in so doing you 

 mutilate as it were my love and you will not again obtain 

 it perfectly." It is also reported that God once said to 

 David, " ! David, that man is a liar, who pretends to 

 love me and yet goes to bed and sleeps the whole time till 

 morning. For does not a friend desire to see the counte- 

 nance of his friend, and is he not eager to have intercourse 

 with him ? Whoever wishes to see me, will seek me and 

 will find me." 



The sixth sign of love to God, is when a man finds the 

 worship of God to be easy, inviting and delightful. It is 

 related that a certain preacher 1 used to say, fct I have served 

 God in worship sixty years withirksomeness and constraint, 

 I afterwards served him yet sixty years more, and my de- 

 votions were to me spiritual food ; and in the absence or 

 disuse of them, I did not enjoy a moment's peace or quiet 

 of mind." 



The seventh sign of love to God is, that a man loves the 

 sincere friends and obedient servants of God, and regards 

 them all as his friends. He regards all the enemies of God 

 as his enemies and abhors them. And God thus speaks 

 iu his eternal word. " His companions are terrible towards 

 the infidels, and tender towards each other." 2 A Sheikh 

 was once asked " who are the friends of the exalted and 

 blessed God ?" He replied : " The friends of God are 

 those who are more compassionate to the friends of God 

 themselves, than a father or a mother to their children." 



1 Sheikh. 

 a S. 48: 29. 



