There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form….Love alone is my religion.
IBN ARABI
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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There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form….Love alone is my religion.
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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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My creed is LOVE; Wherever its caravan turns along the way, That is my belief, My faith.
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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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Your personal nature seeks its paradise.
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You are My sight, so have faith. You are My Face, so veil yourself.
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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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Each 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.
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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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God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
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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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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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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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The 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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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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