It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come.
SHAMS TABRIZIThe real dirt is not outside, but inside, in our hearts. We can wash all stains with water. The only one we can’t remove is the grudge and the bad intentions sticking to our hearts.
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The real dirt is not outside, but inside, in our hearts. We can wash all stains with water. The only one we can’t remove is the grudge and the bad intentions sticking to our hearts.
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There are more fake guides, teachers in the world than stars. The real guide is the one who makes you see your inner beauty, not the one who wants to be admired and followed.
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If you look around, you can find a face of God in each thing, because He is not hidden in a church, in a mosque, or a synagogue, but everywhere. As there is no one who lives after seeing him, there is also no one dying after seeing him. Who finds Him, stays forever with him.
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Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart.
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Be sure that someday you’ll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.
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You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.
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The salat can be made up for, but there is no making up for false show or outward worship without presence.
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Love is a travel. All travelers whether they want or not are changed. No one can travel into love and remain the same.
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When you oppose the shaykh, it’s like the slave who kills himself over a quarrel with his master. ‘Hey, why are you killing yourself over a quarrel?’ He says, ‘So my master will suffer loss.’
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We can only learn and advance with contradictions. The faithful inside should meet the doubtful. The doubtful should meet the faithful. Human slowly advances and becomes mature when he accepts his contradictions.
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The past is a fog on our minds. The future? A complete dream. We can’t neither guess the future, neither change the past.
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Alms in secret extinguish the wrath of the Lord’ means you are so immersed in sincerity and in preserving that sincerity that you have no pleasure in giving alms.
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To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart.
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If parts are always changing, the whole remains the same. A dead good man is replaced by a good man, a dead bad man is replaced by a bad man. While the whole remains the same, every day is different.
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When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness.
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