October 2008
11 posts
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When my Beloved appears, With what eye do I see Him? With His eye, not with mine, For none sees Him except Himself.
(Ibn Arabi)
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How utterly amazing is someone who flees from something he cannot escape to seek something that will not last! “It is not the eyes that are blind, but the hearts in the breasts are blind.” Do not travel from phenomenal being to phenomenal being. You will be like the donkey going around at the mill. It travels to what is set out from. Travel from phenomenal beings to the Maker of...
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How can you imagine that something else veils Him when He is the One who is manifest by everything? How can you imagine that something else veils Him when He is the One who is made manifest in everything? How can you imagine that something else veils Him when He is the One who is manifest to everything? How can you imagine that something else veils Him when He was the One who was Manifest...
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O my Lord, if I worship you from fear of hell, burn me in hell. If I worship you from hope of Paradise, bar me from its gates. But if I worship you for yourself alone, grant me then the beauty of your Face.
(Rabiah Adawiyah)
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O God, Another Night is passing away, Another Day is rising — Tell me that I have spent the Night well so I can be at peace, Or that I have wasted it, so I can mourn for what is lost. I swear that ever since the first day You brought me back to life, The day You became my Friend, I have not slept — And even if You drive me from your door, I swear again that we will never be separated....
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I carry a torch in one hand And a bucket of water in the other: With these things I am going to set fire to Heaven And put out the flames of Hell So that voyagers to God can rip the veils And see the real goal.
(Rabi’ah Adawiyyah)
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Kill me, my faithful friends, For in my being killed is my life. Love is that you remain standing In front of your Beloved When you are stripped of all your attributes; Then His attributes become your qualities. Between me and You, there is only me. Take away the me, so only You remain.
(Abu Manshur Al Hallaj)
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Love is here; it is the blood in my veins, my skin. I am destroyed; He has filled me with Passion. His fire has flooded the nerves of my body. Who am I? Just my name; the rest is Him.
(Jalaluddin Rumi)
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I’m neither beautiful nor ugly neither this nor that I’m neither the peddler in the market nor the nightingale in the rose garden Teacher give me a name so that I’ll know what to call myself I’m neither slave nor free neither candle nor iron I’ve not fallen in love with anyone nor is anyone in love with me Whether I’m sinful or good sin and goodness come...
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Strive to discover the mystery before life is taken from you. If while living you fail to find yourself, to know yourself, How will you be able to understand the secret of your existence when you die?
(Fariduddin Attar)
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This Love is not merely a means.., nor it is just kind of game. It’s the Law of the palace, describing the way of The King.
(The Path of Love)