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Hope is the vision of God in His perfect Beauty.

— Al-Qushayri The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2002)

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Love is the effacement of the lover's attributes and the establishments of the Beloved's Essence.

The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2002)

Hope and fear are like the two wings of a bird, when it is flying straight to its destination; of one wing fails its flights fails and if both fails, it dies.

The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2002)

Gratitude is the vision of the Gives, not of the gift-it comes from God Himself.

The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2002)

The Sharīāh is concerned with the observance of the outward manifestations of religion, while Haqīqat is concerned with an inward vision of Divine Power.

The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2002)

According to the Sufīs Mārīfat is the attitude of the man who acknowledges God in His Names and Attibutes; who is sincere in his actions, who frees himself from the blameworthy traits of character and from weaknesses and lets his heart dwell with God.

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True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

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The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

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Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

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