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Inner travel is a blessed journey. So it is complete now in good manner. Then who can object the worldly travel?

— Shah Badakhshi The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

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All sorts of perfections are attained to the gnostic. He is also confidant of Divine mysteries.

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Every individual being has the ability to acquire intuitive knowledge.

The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

Nothing in reality exists, except God, the Absolute Being.

The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

Every particle of the dust has universal unity. The individual is only in the same way a part of the Infinite Being who fills in the universe, a particle whish has been momentarily detached there from only to return thither.

The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

Don't worry, He (Allah) will not separate his lovers from Himself. It is not possible to unrecognize after having full cognition of Him. But one must not give up struggle, nor becomes negligent.

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