Those are upon guidance from their Lord; those are the ones that will prosper It means “[Those are] in possession of clear evidence certainty unveiling and realization from their Lord.” He discloses Himself to their hearts first by His signs then by His attributes and then by His reality and essence. Some people are upon guidance from their Lord by means of rational proofs dalāÌil al-ʿuqūl. They apply [these proofs] properly and therefore attain truths of different types of knowledge ḥaqāÌiq al-ʿulūm. Other people possess insight baṣīra into the courtesies of drawing near so that through witnessing the mercy and generosity [of God] they attain the per- spicuity bayān of certainty. The truth appears to others in their innermost selves so that they witness the reality of the eternally sought and impen- etrable ṣamadiyya and they attain to the source of the faculty of insight by virtue of deeper knowledge ʿirfān. Those are the ones that will prosper: Prosperity is to succeed in one's objective and to win what is sought. He grants the folk subsistence baqāÌ at the place of meeting and they succeed in subduing the enemies that are the clamor of the false notions hawājis of the lower self. Then the thoughts khawāṬir that come to hearts disappear and they stand by the Real for the Real without the intermediary of an intellect ʿaql or recourse to memory dhikr and reflection fikr.
