Gleanings — Paragraph 413
Source (Arabic)
مشهود و مبرهن و واضح قل لک الحمد یا ستّار عیوب الضّعفآء و لک الحمد یا غفّار ذنوب الغفلآء ناس را از موهوم منع نمودیم که بسلطان معلوم و ما یظهر من عنده عارف شوند حال بظنون و اوهام خود مبتلا مشاهده میشوند لعمری انّهم هم الموهوم و لا یشعرون و ما یتکلّمون
Translation
We have forbidden men to walk after the imaginations of their hearts, that they may be enabled to recognize Him Who is the sovereign Source and Object of all knowledge, and may acknowledge whatsoever He may be pleased to reveal. Witness how they have entangled themselves with their idle fancies and vain imaginations. By My life! They are themselves the victims of what their own hearts have devised, and yet they perceive it not. Vain and profitless is the talk of their lips, and yet they understand not.