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When the ship on which the Muhammedan mystic Ibrahim ibn Adham was travelling was endangered by a storm, his companions begged him to pray for help. He retorted: "This is not the time to pray, it is the moment to surrender."

-- Notebooks Category 18: The Reverential Life > Chapter 4 : Surrender > # 22