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 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.
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How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
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Oh, Lord, nourish me not with love, but with the desire for love.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
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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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When you know yourself, your ‘I’ness vanishes and you know that you and Allah are one and the same.
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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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