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Everybody wants to take something to eternity from this world, but there is nothing in this that can find a passage there except egolessness.

— Abu al-Hassan al-Kharaqani The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2002)

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He who sacrifices his honor for the sake of the Lord, the Lord thereafter cloaks him with the garment of His honor.

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Whom the Lord guides, the Path is shortened for him.

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A Sufi does not need the light of the sun or the moon, for the Effulgence of the Lord is with him and it is brighter than that of all satellites.

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When people seek the Lord with earnestness and are lost to themselves, God is met.

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God's love claims him whose heart is reduced to ashes for Him.

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