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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.

Ibn Arabi

Oh, Lord, nourish me not with love, but with the desire for love.
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Desire Difference God Love Prayer
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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Believe Direction Faith Love Myself Religion
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
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Desire God Heart Religious Travel
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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Belief Deep Faith Heart Idol Love Place Religious Thinking Wisdom
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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Authority Guide Himself Person Reveal Trust
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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Acceptance Alone Blame Company Difference Heart Love Myself Religion Time
I follow the Way of Love, and where Love’s caravan takes its path, there is my religion, my faith.
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Faith Journey Love Myself Path Religion Way
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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Alive Collection Hands World
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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Answer Complication Hard Room Silence
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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Belief God Goodness Knowledge Oneself Reality Restriction
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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Independent Love Myself Separation Spiritual Unity
You are My sight, so have faith. You are My Face, so veil yourself.
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Face Faith Myself See Yourself
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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Argument Build Evidence Faith Heart Mindset Wisdom
My creed is LOVE; Wherever its caravan turns along the way, That is my belief, My faith.
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Belief Faith Love Myself Religion
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
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Animal Dream Dreams God Man Nature Plant Sleep Wake Up
When you know yourself, your ‘I’ness vanishes and you know that you and Allah are one and the same.
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God Religious Wisdom Yourself

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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