This is a very narrow door and this elixir is an exceedingly bitter elixir. There are very few who enter through this door and drink this elixir. It is no great feat to refrain from adultery and it is no great accomplishment to avoid killing someone unlawfully, and it is no great virtue to abstain from bearing false witness. But to prefer God over everything and to accept every hardship of the world, nay, even to create hardships with one’s own hands for His sake with true love and true zeal, is such a rank that cannot be achieved by anyone except the siddiq (truthful.