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Ananda
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Posted - Jun 24 2012 : 07:43:32 AM
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“There are as many ways to God as human beings, as many as the breaths of the children of men.” |
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Lebanon
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Posted - Jun 24 2012 : 07:45:51 AM
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Jun 25 2012 : 06:11:13 AM
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Be in this world as if you are a traveller, a passer-by, with your clothes and shoes full of dust. Sometimes you sit under the shade of a tree, sometimes you walk in the desert. Be always a passer-by, for this is not home. The Prophet Muhammad |
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Ananda
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Posted - Jun 25 2012 : 06:12:29 AM
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Sufism is staying at the lover’s door even when you are driven away. RÛDHBÂRÎ |
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Ananda
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Posted - Jun 25 2012 : 06:16:13 AM
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I saw my Lord in my dreams and I asked, “How am I to find You?” He replied, “Leave yourself and come!” BÂYEZÎD BISTÂMÎ |
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Ananda
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Posted - Jun 25 2012 : 06:17:15 AM
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When truth has taken hold of a heart she empties it of all but Herself. AL-HALLÂJ |
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Ananda
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Posted - Jun 25 2012 : 06:18:59 AM
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Solitude in the crowd: in all your outward activity remain inwardly free. Learn not to identify with anything whatsoever. ‘ABD’L-KHÂLIQ GHIJDUWÂNÎ |
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Ananda
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Posted - Jun 25 2012 : 06:20:36 AM
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It is a grave error for anyone to imagine he will attain anything or that anything will be revealed to him of the Path without persistent striving on his part. ABÛ ‘UTHMÂN AL-HÎRÎ
The thing we tell of can never be found by seeking, yet only seekers find it. BÂYEZÎD BISTÂMÎ |
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Ananda
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Posted - Jun 25 2012 : 06:21:02 AM
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Whoever believes he can reach God by his own efforts toils in vain; whoever believes he can reach God without effort is merely a traveller on the road of intent. ABÛ SA‘ÎD AL-KHARRÂZ |
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Ananda
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Posted - Jun 25 2012 : 06:21:25 AM
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And if He closes before you all the ways and passes, He will show you a hidden way which nobody knows. RÛMÎ |
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Ananda
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Posted - Jun 25 2012 : 06:23:03 AM
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Dhû-l-Nûn was asked, “What is the end of the mystic?” He answered, “When he is as he was where he was before he was.” DHÛ-L-NÛN |
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Ananda
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Posted - Jun 25 2012 : 06:23:55 AM
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Choose a master, for without him this journey is full of tribulations, fears, and dangers. With no escort, you would be lost on a road you would have already taken. Do not travel alone on the Path. RÛMÎ |
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Ananda
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Posted - Jun 25 2012 : 06:24:58 AM
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The moment you are united with the master, it becomes effortless. BHAI SAHIB |
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Ananda
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Posted - Jun 25 2012 : 06:31:13 AM
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The source of my grief and loneliness is deep in my breast. This is a disease no doctor can cure. Only union with the Friend can cure it. RÂBI‘A |
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Ananda
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Posted - Jun 25 2012 : 06:31:54 AM
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Oh Lord, nourish me not with love but with the desire for love. IBN ‘ARABÎ |
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Ananda
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Posted - Jun 25 2012 : 06:34:06 AM
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Spiritual need is a living and luminous fire placed by God in the breasts of His servants that their “self ” (nafs, or ego) may be burned; and when it has been burned this fire becomes the fire of “longing” (shawq) which never dies, neither in this world nor in the next. ABÛ SA‘ÎD IBN ABÎ-L-KHAYR |
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Ananda
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Posted - Jun 25 2012 : 06:35:02 AM
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Know that you are the veil which conceals yourself from you. Know also that you cannot reach God through yourself, but that you reach Him through Him. The reason is that when God vouchsafes the vision of reaching Him, He calls upon you to seek after Him and you do. AL-JUNAYD |
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maheswari
Lebanon
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Posted - Jun 25 2012 : 06:35:16 AM
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![](icon_smile.gif) among the ones posted today i like number 3 and 9 |
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Ananda
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Posted - Jun 25 2012 : 4:39:32 PM
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There is a polish for everything that taketh away rust; and the polish of the heart is the invocation of Allâh. The prophet |
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Ananda
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Posted - Jun 25 2012 : 4:40:12 PM
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The breath that does not repeat the name of God is a wasted breath. KABÎR |
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Ananda
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Posted - Jun 25 2012 : 4:41:34 PM
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Truth has been planted in the center of the heart as Allâh’s trust, entrusted to you for safekeeping. It becomes manifest with true repentance and with true efforts. Its beauty shines on the surface when one remembers God and does the dhikr. At the first stage one recites the name of God with one’s tongue; then when the heart becomes alive one recites inwardly with the heart. ‘ABDU’L-QÂDIR AL-GÎLÂNÎ |
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Ananda
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Posted - Jun 25 2012 : 4:43:51 PM
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A devotee was praying when Satan appeared to him and said: “How long wilt thou cry ‘O Allâh?’ Be quiet for thou wilt get no answer.” The devotee hung his head in silence. After a while he had a vision of the prophet Khidr, who said to him, “Ah, why hast thou ceased to call on God?” “Because the answer, ‘Here I am,’ came not,” he replied. Khidr said, “God hath ordered me to go to thee and say this: ‘Was it not I that summoned thee to My service? Did I not make thee busy with My name? Thy calling “Allâh!” was My “Here I am,” Thy yearning pain My messenger to thee. Of all those tears and cries and supplications I was the magnet, and I gave them wings.’” RÛMÎ |
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Ananda
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Posted - Jun 25 2012 : 4:45:37 PM
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There are different levels of remembrance and each has different ways. Some are expressed outwardly with audible voice, some felt inwardly, silently, from the center of the heart. At the beginning one should declare in words what one remembers. Then stage by stage the remembrance spreads throughout one’s being—descending to the heart then rising to the soul; then still further it reaches the realm of the secrets; further to the hidden; to the most hidden of the hidden. How far the remembrance penetrates, the level it reaches, depends solely on the extent to which Allâh in His bounty has guided one. ‘ABDU’L-QÂDIR AL-GÎLÂNÎ |
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Ananda
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Posted - Jun 25 2012 : 4:47:38 PM
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You know that I am powerless to offer You a fitting thanksgiving. Then come into me and give Yourself thanks. This is the true prayer of thanksgiving! There is no other! AL-HALLÂJ |
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Ananda
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Posted - Jun 25 2012 : 5:02:00 PM
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Worship God in such a way that you see Him. If you cannot do so be aware that He sees you. AL-GHAZZÂLÎ |
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Ananda
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Posted - Jun 25 2012 : 5:04:14 PM
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The best act of worship is watchfulness of the moments. That is, that the servant not look beyond his limit, and not contemplate anything other than his Lord, and not associate with anything other than his present moment. ABÛ BAKR MUHAMMAD AL-WÂSITÎ |
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