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Abū al-Ḥasan Sarī al-Saqati (c. 777 – 8 September 867) was one of the early Muslim Sufi saints of Baghdad. He was one of the most influential students of Ma'ruf al-Karkhi and one of the first to present Sufism in a systematic way.
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The genuine mystic dwells in the state of unity.
Sinning upto necessity might be pardonable but for self-conceit and pride it is unpardonable since sin of Adam was the accomplishment of desire and sin of Satan self-conceit.
To meet people with hypocrisy separates one from God.
Every nearest to Divine presence is given spiritual acumen in proportion to his proximity to Divine sanctuary.
He who cannot bridle his own lower soul, how can he purify the same of others.
He who meditates into the mysteries of the Holy Quran is sagacious in true sense.
One should avoid rich neighbour, rich savant, and Quran reader on payment.
Gnostic gets peace after annihilation in Him.
The worst punishment from God is the separation from Him.
Gnostic has an elevated spiritual rank. He eats less, sleeps less and repose less. He is like shinning moon who radiates others and bears the burden of everything on earth, shows right path like light and saturates the heart like water giving it new life.
In his youth he would say: "One should worship Him in his youth."
The entire world is worthless excepting five things: to eat for survival, to take water in order to slake thirst, clothes to cover body, house to dwell in, knowledge just to act upon.
O God! Whatever punishment you inflict upon me, do not punish me with the humiliation of being veiled from Thee.
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