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Ananda
3115 Posts |
 Posted - Jun 25 2012 : 5:06:20 PM
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When a servant whom God loves prays to Him, God
says, “O Gabriel, delay answering the need of My servant,
for I love to hear his voice.”
When a servant whom God dislikes prays to Him, God
says, “O Gabriel, answer My servant’s needs, for I dislike
hearing his voice.”
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2012 : 06:36:46 AM
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When God becomes friends with a man, He grants him
much distress and when He makes him His enemy, He
provides worldly goods in abundance.
FUDAYL IBN ‘IYÂD |
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2012 : 06:37:11 AM
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O God! whatever punishment Thou mayst inflict upon
me, do not punish me with the humiliation of being veiled
from Thee.
ABÛ’L HASAN SARÎ AS-SAQATÎ |
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2012 : 06:38:34 AM
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You imagined that you would accomplish this task
through your own strength, activity, and effort. This is the
wont that I have established: expend everything you have
in Our way. Then Our bounty will come to you. On this
endless road, We command you to travel with your own
feeble hands and feet. We know that you cannot traverse
this way with feet so feeble. Indeed, in a hundred thousand
years you will not arrive at the first way station.
However, when you travel this road until your legs are
exhausted and you fall down flat, until you have no more
strength to move forward, then God’s grace will take you
in its arms.
RÛMÎ |
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2012 : 06:39:29 AM
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God does not charge a soul with more than it can bear.
QUR’ÂN
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2012 : 06:40:02 AM
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I burnt, and burnt and burnt.
RÛMÎ |
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2012 : 06:41:23 AM
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I do not ask to see,
I do not ask to know,
I ask only to be used.
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2012 : 06:43:06 AM
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For twelve years, I was the blacksmith of my soul. I
thrust my soul into the furnace of discipline and made it
hot in the flames of arduous endeavor, then I placed it
upon the anvil of reproach and hammered it with the
hammer of self-blame, till I had fashioned out of my soul a
mirror. For five years I was my own mirror, and I polished
that mirror with every manner of godly service and obedience.
After that I gazed upon my own reflection for a year,
and I saw about my waist an infidel girdle of delusion and
coquetry and self-regard, because I relied upon my own
acts of obedience and approved of my own conduct.
BÂYEZÎD BISTÂMÎ |
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2012 : 06:44:09 AM
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I had hoped to get instructions in Yoga, expected
wonderful teachings, but what the Teacher did was mainly
to force me to face the darkness within myself, and it
almost killed me. In other words, he made me “descend
into hell,” the cosmic drama enacted in every soul as soon
as it dares lift its face to the Light.
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2012 : 06:45:02 AM
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Almighty God admitted me to His presence in two
thousand stations, and in every station He offered me a
kingdom, but I declined it. God said to me, “Bâyezîd,
what do you desire?” I replied, “I desire not to desire.”
BÂYEZÎD BISTÂMÎ |
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2012 : 06:47:02 AM
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Now the Lord is with them in every alteration,
Performing an unimaginable work in them hour
after hour.
If they only knew! they would not withdraw from Him,
not even for the space of a wink.
For He does not withdraw from them at any time….
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2012 : 06:48:35 AM
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God is the Light of the heavens and the earth,
His light may be compared to a niche
wherein is a lamp
the lamp in a glass
the glass as it were a glittering star
kindled from a Blessed tree
an olive that is neither of the East nor of the West
whose oil would almost shine forth
though no fire touches it.
Light upon light
God guides to His light whom He will.
God speaks in metaphors to me.
God has knowledge of all things.
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2012 : 06:51:38 AM
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There are lights which ascend and lights which descend.
The ascending lights are the lights of the heart; the descending
lights are those of the Throne. The lower-self (the ego)
is the veil between the Throne and the heart. When this
veil is rent and a door opens in the heart, like springs
towards like. Light rises toward light and light comes
down upon light, “and it is light upon light.”
Each time the heart sighs for the Throne, the Throne
sighs for the heart, so they come to meet…. Each time a
light rises up from you, a light comes down towards you,
and each time a flame rises from you a corresponding flame
comes down towards you.… If their energies are equal,
they meet half-way.… But when the substance of light
has grown in you, then this becomes a Whole in relation
to what is of the same nature in Heaven: then it is the
substance of light in Heaven which yearns for you and
is attracted to your light, and it descends towards you.
This is the secret of the mystical journey….
NAJM AL-DÎN KUBRÂ |
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Namath
350 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2012 : 07:59:47 AM
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quote:
Originally posted by Ananda
When a servant whom God loves prays to Him, God
says, “O Gabriel, delay answering the need of My servant,
for I love to hear his voice.”
When a servant whom God dislikes prays to Him, God
says, “O Gabriel, answer My servant’s needs, for I dislike
hearing his voice.”
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quote:
Originally posted by Ananda
When God becomes friends with a man, He grants him
much distress and when He makes him His enemy, He
provides worldly goods in abundance.
FUDAYL IBN ‘IYÂD
Salam Ananda;
The Evil one threatens you with poverty and bids you to conduct unseemly. Allah promiseth you His forgiveness and bounties. And Allah careth for all and He knoweth all things-He granteth wisdom to whom He pleaseth; and he to whom wisdom is granted receiveth indeed a benefit overflowing; but none will grasp the Message but Men of understanding.~~~ALbaqara(The Cow)
What better source of God's wisdom than the Quran.
thanx for Sharing,I enjoyed reading most of it.
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Edited by - Namath on Jun 26 2012 08:43:24 AM |
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2012 : 10:24:04 AM
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Thank you for sharing dear... What's in the quotations... I am living it as well as many who are living it and who have lived it before us... The Prophet himself had a dark night of the soul as you know... First purification... A lot of the times the hard way... Afterwards blessings in abundance... But of course it's not so for everyone... But it's certainly the case over here and have been so with many others...
God gives only good... Everything that comes from him is good... Even suffering...
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2012 : 10:39:11 AM
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Dear Namath, I think I've forgot to mention the pain of separation from the beloved as well... This burning desire for God bcz of which Rumi said "I burnt, and burnt and burnt." This burning desire is a big blessing from God.
Love,
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2012 : 10:39:35 AM
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O Light of light, Thou art veiled to Thy creatures and
they do not attain to Thy light. O Light of light, Thy light
illuminates the people of heaven and enlightens the people
of earth. O Light of all light. Thy light is praised by all light.
PRAYER ATTRIBUTED TO MOHAMMED |
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2012 : 10:40:54 AM
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Not a single lover would seek union
if the Beloved were not seeking it.
RÛMÎ |
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2012 : 10:41:11 AM
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In memory of the Beloved we drank a wine that made
us drunk before the creation of the vine.
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2012 : 10:43:19 AM
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My earth and My heaven containeth Me not, but the
heart of My faithful servant containeth Me.
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2012 : 10:46:03 AM
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Between the lover and the Beloved there must be no
veil. Thou thyself art thine own veil, Hâfiz—get out of
the way!
HÂFIZ |
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2012 : 5:17:36 PM
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sultan, saint, pickpocket;
love has everyone by the ear
dragging us to God by secret ways
I never knew
that God, too, desires us.
RÛMÎ |
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2012 : 5:18:21 PM
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Pure jewel! You have carried off my heart, without
telling me either your name or where you come from….
I have neither my own heart nor my heart’s desire.
JÂMÎ |
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2012 : 5:19:08 PM
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Oh who can cure my sickness? An outcast I have
become. Family and home, where are they? No path leads
back to them and none to my beloved. Broken are my
name, my reputation, like glass smashed on a rock; broken
is the drum which once spread the good news and my ears
now only hear the drumbeat of separation.
Huntress, beautiful one, whose victim I am—limping,
a willing target for your arrows. I follow obediently my
beloved, who owns my soul. If she says “Get drunk,” that
is what I shall do. If she orders me to be mad, that is what
I shall be.
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Jun 26 2012 : 5:37:34 PM
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