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Love consists in embracing acts of obedience and in avoiding acts of disobedience which implies that the devotee of God develops his kinship with God as he merges his will in His will and avoids that which is forbidden by Him.

— 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.

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The utmost degree of gnosis is dismay and perplexity.

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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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