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
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
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
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
Worship God in such a way that you see Him. If you
cannot do so be aware that He sees you.
AL-GHAZZÂLÎ
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
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.”
TRADITIONAL
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
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
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
God does not charge a soul with more than it can bear.
QUR’ÂN
I burnt, and burnt and burnt.
RÛMÎ
I do not ask to see,
I do not ask to know,
I ask only to be used.
ANONYMOUS
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
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.
IRINA TWEEDIE
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
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….
AL-HALLÂJ
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.
QUR’ÂN (24:35)
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
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.