When you know yourself, your ‘I’ness vanishes and you know that you and Allah are one and the same.
IBN ARABIMy 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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You are My sight, so have faith. You are My Face, so veil yourself.
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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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My creed is LOVE; Wherever its caravan turns along the way, That is my belief, My faith.
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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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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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God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
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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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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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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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I follow the Way of Love, and where Love’s caravan takes its path, there is my religion, my faith.
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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 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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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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