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Evil is thou', and the worst evil is thou', which thou knowest it not.
The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)
The first step in Sufism is the breaking of inkpot and the tearing-up of books and the forgetting of all kinds of intellectual knowledge.
The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)
Take one step out of yourself that you may arrive at God.
The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)
There is nothing inside this coat except Allah.
The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)
Hell is where you are and Paradise where you are not.
The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)
Freedom from lower qualities is an essential qualification required for spiritual progress.
The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)
Through love we're slain, the world's our slaughter house
We've no food nor sleep, the world's our cookhouse.
We've no desire for paradise, because
Our hell's a hundred times loftier than that.
The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)
When I was a lion, panther was my prey;
I caught everything which I hunted.
When I came to embrace tightly love for you,
A lame fox drove me from den.
The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)
If you wish that God should dwell in your heart, purify your heart from all save Him for the king will not enter a house filled with stores and furniture. He will only enter a heart which is empty of all save Himself.
The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)
If you don not come to repent your existence,
You'll never approach the circle of gnostics and drunkards
Unless in other's eyes you become an infidel,
In the creed of lovers, you'll never be Muslim.
The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)
What sweeter than this in the world!
Friend met friend and the lover joined his Beloved.
That was all sorrow, this is all joy
Those were all words, this is all reality.