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The utmost degree of gnosis is dismay and perplexity.

— 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.

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

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

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.

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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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