A human being is not a human being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people.
A student must reduce to the minimum the fixing of his attention upon customary things like his people and his environment, for attention-capacity is limited.
The pupil must regard his teacher like a doctor who knows the cure of the patient.
He will serve his teacher.
Sufis teach in unexpected ways.
An experienced physician prescribes certain treatments correctly.
Yet the outside observer might be quite amazed at what he is saying and doing; he will fail to see the necessity or the relevance of the procedure being followed.
This is why it is unlikely that the pupil will be able to ask the right questions at the right time.
But the teacher knows what and when a person can understand.
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