Abdelkader El Djezairi on camel
Abdelkader El Djezairi12 quotes“Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.”
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O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.
Abdelkader El DjezairiAbdelkader El Djezairi By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.
Abdelkader El DjezairiAbdelkader El Djezairi Fear that man who fears not God.
Abdelkader El DjezairiAbdelkader El Djezairi Abu Sa’id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. ‘He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.’
Abdelkader El DjezairiAbdelkader El Djezairi Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.
Abdelkader El DjezairiAbdelkader El Djezairi The diurnal sun sets at night, but the sun of the heart never disappears.
Abdelkader El DjezairiAbdelkader El Djezairi When God wanted to create the horse, he said to the South Wind, “I want to make a creature of you. Condense.” And the Wind condensed.
Abdelkader El DjezairiAbdelkader El Djezairi Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.
Abdelkader El DjezairiAbdelkader El Djezairi The other world is as to this like the east to the west. We cannot approach the one without turning away from the other.
Abdelkader El DjezairiAbdelkader El Djezairi The absolutely Non-Manifested cannot be designated by any expression which could limit It, Separate It, or include It. In spite of this, every allusion alludes only to Him, every designation designates Him, and He is at the same time the Non-Manifested and the Manifested.
Abdelkader El DjezairiAbdelkader El Djezairi It is with a word as with an arrow–once let it loose and it does not return.
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