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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)
You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?
Attributed
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)
The compass only serves to direct the prayers of those who are outside of the Caaba, whilst within it no one knows the use of it.
Attributed Pebbles, Pearls and Gems of the Orient (1882)
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)
Seek truth from thought, not in mouldy books. Look in the sky to find the moon, not in the pool.
Attributed Pebbles, Pearls and Gems of the Orient (1882)
When the sun goeth up, where stayeth night?
When the joy of bounty came, where lagged affliction?
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
If this world were our abiding place, we might complain that it makes our bed so hard: But it is only our night-quarters on a journey; and who can expect home comforts?
Attributed Pebbles, Pearls and Gems of the Orient (1882)
Weave no more with soot, like the spider, a web of care,
Wherein both woof and warp are rotten.
While thou art silent, His speech is thy speech,
While thou weavest not, God is the weaver.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
When the discourse touched on the matter of love,
Pen was broken and paper torn;
None but the sun can display the sun.
If you would see it displayed, turn not away from it.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
This world which is only a dream
Seems to the sleeper as a thing enduring for ever
But when the morn of the last day shall dawn,
The sleeper will escape from the cloud of illusion.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)