None but God is loved in the exist- ent things. It is He who is manifest within every beloved to the eye of every lover – and there is nothing in the existent realm that is not a lover.
IBN ARABI
None but God is loved in the exist- ent things. It is He who is manifest within every beloved to the eye of every lover – and there is nothing in the existent realm that is not a lover.
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None but God is loved in the exist- ent things. It is He who is manifest within every beloved to the eye of every lover – and there is nothing in the existent realm that is not a lover.
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You are My sight, so have faith. You are My Face, so veil yourself.
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Your personal nature seeks its paradise.
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Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you – indeed, the knowledge of reality would elude you. Be in yourself a matter for all forms of belief, for God is too vast and tremendous to be restricted to one belief rather than another.
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If you find it complicated to answer someone’s question, do not answer it, for his container is already full and does not have room for the answer.
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While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah’s bounties, which come to you from myriads of hands.
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I follow the Way of Love, and where Love’s caravan takes its path, there is my religion, my faith.
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Oh, Lord, nourish me not with love, but with the desire for love.
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My heart can take on any form: A meadow for gazelles, A cloister for monks, For the idols, sacred ground, Ka’ba for the circling pilgrim, The tables of the Torah, The scrolls of the Quran. My creed is Love; Wherever its caravan turns along the way, That is my belief, My faith.
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God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
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My creed is LOVE; Wherever its caravan turns along the way, That is my belief, My faith.
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I am in love with no other than myself, and my very separation is my union… I am my beloved and my lover; I am my knight and my maiden.
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It is He who is revealed in every face, sought in every sign, gazed upon by every eye, worshipped in every object of worship, and pursued in the unseen and the visible. Not a single one of His creatures can fail to find Him in its primordial and original nature.
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How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
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When you know yourself, your ‘I’ness vanishes and you know that you and Allah are one and the same.
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I believe in the religion of Love, whatever direction its caravans may take, for Love is my religion and my faith.
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