I follow the Way of Love, and where Love’s caravan takes its path, there is my religion, my faith.
IBN ARABII follow the Way of Love, and where Love’s caravan takes its path, there is my religion, my faith.
IBN ARABII 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.
IBN ARABIYou are My sight, so have faith. You are My Face, so veil yourself.
IBN ARABIOh, Lord, nourish me not with love, but with the desire for love.
IBN ARABIGod sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
IBN ARABIMy creed is LOVE; Wherever its caravan turns along the way, That is my belief, My faith.
IBN ARABIIf 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.
IBN ARABII believe in the religion of Love, whatever direction its caravans may take, for Love is my religion and my faith.
IBN ARABIIt 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.
IBN ARABINone 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 ARABIHow can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
IBN ARABIEach person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or he entrusts himself to the collective, magisterial authority as the intermediary between himself and Revelation.
IBN ARABIYour personal nature seeks its paradise.
IBN ARABIWhile you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah’s bounties, which come to you from myriads of hands.
IBN ARABIWhoever builds his faith exclusively on demonstrative proofs and deductive arguments, builds a faith on which it is impossible to rely. For he is affected by the negativities of constant objections. Certainty(al-yaqin) does not derive from the evidences of the mind but pours out from the depths of the heart.
IBN ARABIThe ignorant one does not see his ignorance as he basks in its darkness; nor does the knowledgeable one see his own knowledge, for he basks in its light.
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