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.
IBN ARABIYour 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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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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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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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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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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When you know yourself, your ‘I’ness vanishes and you know that you and Allah are one and the same.
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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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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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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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How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
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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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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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Oh, Lord, nourish me not with love, but with the desire for love.
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