Almustafa speaks on freedom—true freedom is the acceptance of what is necessary—and on reason and passion as the rudder and sails of the soul. Both are needed for the voyage.
At the city gate the guard asks how he may be free. The Prophet says: at the city gate you are already free. Freedom is not escape from bonds but the acceptance of necessity with clarity. "And you shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound."
Your soul is often a battlefield between reason and passion. Let both be your guides: reason as the rudder, passion as the sails. Without the rudder the ship is lost; without the sails it does not move. "Let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing; and let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection."