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I am sweet-smiling Jesus by whom the world is revived,
But my lineage is from God: I know nought of Mary.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Argue not from the condition of common men,
Stumble not at severity and mercy;
For mercy and severity, joy and sorrow are transient
And transient things die; God is heir of all.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
When the spirit lovingly embraces Thee,
In Thy presence all images become spirit.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
The majority of those in Paradise are the simple
Who have escaped the snares of philosophy.
Strip yourself bare of overweening intellect
That grace may ever be shed upon you from above.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
The prophets hear in their mind voices that others never perceive, as the voices of the Peris, which, although they sound out clearly, are never apprehended by our ears.
Attributed Pebbles, Pearls and Gems of the Orient (1882)
As the stranger, far distant in foreign climes, draws towards home, so the soul, from midst of this world of multiplicity, pants and soars upward to the Unity.
Attributed Pebbles, Pearls and Gems of the Orient (1882)
‘Qh heart,’ said I, ‘may it bless thee
To have entered the circle of lovers,
To look beyond the range of the eye
To penetrate the windings of the bosom.’
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Ah! make not thyself a eunuch, become not a monk,
Because chastity is mortgaged to lust.
Without lust, denial of lust is impossible,
No man can display bravery against the dead.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
The bodies of the righteous are as pure souls
Their words, their actions, their praises
Are all as a pure soul without spot or blemish.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Look not in the world for bliss and fortune, since thou wilt not find them,
Seek bliss in both worlds by serving Him.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Those drunk with God though they be thousands, yet are one,
Those drunk with lust, though it be a single one, he is a double.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
The billow of largesse hath appeared, the thunder of the sea hath arrived,
The morn of blessedness hath dawned. Morn? No, ’tis the light of God.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
The generous die but their kindness remains,
O happy he who drove this chariot (of kindness),
The unjust die and their injustice remains,
Alas for the soul that commits deceit and fraud.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
You are in the bonds of (absorbed in) the arrangement of beard and turban,
How will you gain him who quaffs the mighty flagon (of love)?
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Enter the hearts of my servants
To gain the paradise of beholding me, O fearer of God.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Ah, me! so poor, can I declare that friend, who never had another friend his like,—none, therefore, who could know his soul?
Attributed Pebbles, Pearls and Gems of the Orient (1882)
As water from the glasses is all poured into one vessel, so all the praises are mingled together. Since He that is celebrated is wholly one, all religions form but one religion.
Attributed Pebbles, Pearls and Gems of the Orient (1882)
None but the sun can display the sun.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
That spiritual garden accompanies them everywhere
Yet it is never revealed to the eyes of the people,
Its fruits ever asking to be gathered,
Its fount of life welling up to be drunk.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
'Tis slave-caressing thy love has practised,
Else, where is the heart worthy of that love?
Every heart that has slept one night in thine air
Is like radiant day; thereby the air is illuminated.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)