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.
IBN ARABIWhen you know yourself, your ‘I’ness vanishes and you know that you and Allah are one and the same.
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You are My sight, so have faith. You are My Face, so veil yourself.
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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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When you know yourself, your ‘I’ness vanishes and you know that you and Allah are one and the same.
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Whoever 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.
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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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My creed is LOVE; Wherever its caravan turns along the way, That is my belief, My faith.
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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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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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God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
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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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Oh, Lord, nourish me not with love, but with the desire for love.
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Your personal nature seeks its paradise.
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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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I follow the Way of Love, and where Love’s caravan takes its path, there is my religion, my faith.
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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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