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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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maheswari
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
3115 Posts |
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
3115 Posts |
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
3115 Posts |
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
3115 Posts |
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
3115 Posts |
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
3115 Posts |
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
3115 Posts |
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
3115 Posts |
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
3115 Posts |
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
3115 Posts |
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
3115 Posts |
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
3115 Posts |
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
3115 Posts |
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
3115 Posts |
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
2520 Posts |
Posted - Jun 25 2012 : 06:35:16 AM
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among the ones posted today  i like number 3 and 9 |
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
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
3115 Posts |
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
3115 Posts |
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
3115 Posts |
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
3115 Posts |
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
3115 Posts |
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
3115 Posts |
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
3115 Posts |
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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