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The first station of trust in God is that servant be between the hands of God exactly as the dead body is between the hands of the one who washes the dead.

— Sahl al-Tustari The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

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It is illicit for the heart to smell the scent of certainty while contentment with other-than-God dwells therein.

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

Sufism is to eat little and to take rest with God, and to flee from men.

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

The utmost degree of gnosis is dismay and perplexity.

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

I am the Proof of God for the created beings and I am a proof for the saints (awliya) of my time.

When God created the world, He placed sin and ignorance within satisfication of the appetite and knowledge and wisdom withing hunger. When Sahl hungered he was powerful, and whenever he ate, he became weak.

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