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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)
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)
Since all things are dependent on probability,
Religion is so first of all, for thereby you find release.
In this world no knocking at the door is possible
Save hope, and God knows what is best.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Yesterday the Master with a lantern was roaming about the city,
Crying ‘I am tired of devil and beast, I desire a man.’
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
The whole world is jealous for this cause
That God surpasseth the world in jealousy.
God is as a soul and the world is as a body
And bodies derive their good and evil from souls.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
In outward form thou art the microcosm
But in reality the macrocosm,
Seemingly the bough is the cause of the fruit,
But really the bough exists because of the fruit.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
O indestructible Love! O divine minstrel
Thou art both stay and refuge; a name equal to thee I have not found.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
One I seek, one I know, one I see, one I call.
He is the first, He is the last, He is the outward, He is the inward.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Whereas want of fidelity is shameful even in dogs,
How can it be right in men?
God Almighty himself makes boast of fidelity
Saying 'Who is more faithful to his promise than we?'
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Having chosen thy Director, be not weak of heart
Nor yet sluggish and lax like water and mud;
But if thou takest umbrage at every rub
How wilt thou become a polished mirror?
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Pleasures of the flesh are as nuts and raisins, O son,
If you are a man dispense with these two things;
And if you dispense with them the goodness of God
Will set you above the nine heavens.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
As soul became pregnant by the Soul of souls,
So by the former soul did the world become pregnant;
Then the world brought forth another world,
And of this last are brought forth other worlds.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
The thread and the needle are related to one another; but a camel is not fitted to pass through the eye of a needle; how should the body of a camel become slender except by abstinence and exertion?
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
If you have not gone to the Kaaba, fortune will draw you thither,
Do not flee, O babbler, for you have no refuge from God.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)