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Polish the mirror of your heart until it reflects every person's light.

Put down your glass, it is time to dance. If you want to get drunk all you need is to drink love. Put down your pipe and do away with these childish toys. If you want to get high all you need is to breathe love. Now, can I have this dance?

Put down your stones. Why are you breaking the window when God has left the door wide open? If you are afraid, lover, follow me. I will guide the way.

Quien se conoce a sí mismo, conoce a su Dios" significa, entre otras cosas, que el engaño de sí mismo impide el conocimiento.

Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others.

Remedio Tu medicina está dentro de ti, y tú no la ves. Tu enfermedad viene de ti mismo, y tú no te das cuenta. Hazrat Ali

Si eres "humilde", puede ayudarte en tu vida ordinaria. Si no lo eres, no irás a ningún lado respecto a las cosas superiores.

Remedy Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it. Hazrat Ali

Self-mortification, far from producing liberation from material things, is far more likely to cause either an unhinged mind, delusions or a masochistic taste for more suffering, experienced, of course, as joy.

Ser un Sufi es desligarse de ideas fijas y preconcebidas, y no intentar eludir el propio destino. Abu-Said, hijo de Abi-Khair

Shaykh al-Jundi hanya seorang dari pewaris sastera jenis ini di dalam sejarah sastera Sufi yang muncul di dalam abad ke-19. Tema utama qasidah ini kekal di dalam rangka tradisi sastera Islam yang lampau oleh kerana tidak mungkin kekal 'tamaddun Islam' itu jika ia diasingkan dari tradisi yang menerbitkan jenis puisi yang sebegini rupa. Umumnya tamaddun agama berasaskan prinsip asal dengan aspek-aspek dan ciri-ciri baharu yang ditambah tanpa penambahan prinsip.

Si buscas un maestro, trata de convertirte en un verdadero estudiante. Si quieres ser un estudiante,trata de encontrar un verdadero maestro.

Since I forgot to beg my alms yesterday, I am hungry and weak today. And since I am hungry and weak today, I didn’t beg my alms for tomorrow. What tomorrow will bring to me, I do not know, I do not care. Yet within this uncertainty, I am contented and gratified, That You chose me to be like this. Overfilling my heart with love for You, And my soul thirsty dry for Your love, That I die everynight crying for Your love, And I born everyday for to love You again.

Si tu deseo de lo 'bueno' está basado en la avidez, no es bueno, es avidez.

Saying of the Prophet Monkishness No monkery in Islam.

Show a man too many camels' bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one.

Si no puedes reír con frecuencia y autenticidad, no tienes alma.

Soar like an eagle beyond skies of heavens reach; as wings of dreams dance with winds of reality.

Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.

Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.

Sumber yang paling utama sebagai rujukan kesusasteraan spiritual di seluruh dunia Islam itu dan yang paling penting ialah al-Qur'an sendiri, diikuti dengan hadis Rasulullah terutamanya hadis Qudsi dan hadis yang berkaitan dengan fahaman dan doktrin spiritual. Selepas itu fahaman-fahaman metafizikal dan juga kosmologikal, doktrin yang telah dirumus oleh ahli-ahli metafizik Islam dan doktrin para wali Sufi berasaskan sumber keagamaan dan fahaman tradisional yang tidak bercanggah dengan doktrin spiritual kaum Sufi.

Supón que eres en parte hipócrita y en parte incauto, y no estarás muy equivocado.

Sufi sebenar berpakaian biasa bangsanya, mengikut Nabi Pada zaman ini akan berseluar kemeja, sederhana sekali Namun dada berisi hikmah ladunni bukan hasil hafali Menjadi muaddib zamannya penuh istiqamah, berani.

That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information....but knowledge does not come in that manner.

Temâyülât-ı kalbiyye irâde-i cüziyyeden değildir! (Kalbin nerelere meyl edeceği yani neyi ve kimi seveceği insanın iradesinde değildir)

The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is.

THE DANCE OF ANGELS Suzy Kassem He spins and spins and spins To remove all three layers of him And with devout discipline He spirals to ignite the light within. He becomes a part Of the solar system And spirals to its cosmic hymn. His soul transcends through The mouth of God To join the source Of everything. He turns and turns and turns To open up windows to the universe And with each circle of love he twirls The love in his heart Radiates and bursts. His thirst for a meeting with the divine Has been his only quest since birth, And while rotating like the hand of time He sings the 'AH' of an angel's verse. As he turns and turns and turns A million emotions and vibrations submerge A luminous spectacle worth a million candles, The Sufi dancer is poetry without Words. THE DANCE OF ANGELS by Suzy Kassem

The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.

The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed.

The first time I heard you laugh, I only wanted to say funny things so you would always be laughing. You know what happens to chocolate when you leave it out in the sun? I’m that unfortunate chocolate and you, you are the laughing sun. For this reason, I am offering myself to you not as a martyr or some selfless fool, but as a self-indulgent moth who actively pursues the light without much fear for the flame. The moth who revels in the heat and declares: Burn me.

The intelligence of the heart bypasses the intellect in the head which works on assumptions and requires a lot of thinking and confusion and makes a person tired and weak. But, the heart intelligence is not only direct and to the point, it also gives you energy, vitality and strength.

[T]he light of oneness is available to all of us, present in hidden aquifers where life’s waters continue to flow, waiting in a living silence for us to notice.

The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so.

The lover drinks and the cup-bearer pours. The lover thinks but the cup-bearer knows: love begets love. Since this wine is love, then this cup is love, then this tavern is love, then this life is love.

The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.

The most complete gift of God is a life based on knowledge.

The mystic knows that the essence of prayer is the hidden secret, “I am He whom I love, He whom I love is me.” In the deepest prayer of the heart there is only oneness, for when the heart is open and looks towards God, He reveals His unity. In this state of prayer there are a merging and melting that transcend the mind and its notions of duality: the heart overwhelms us with His presence which obliterates any sense of our own self. These moments of prayer are moments of union in which the lover is lost. The lover has stepped from the shore of his own being into the limitless ocean of the Beloved. (...) When love reveals its real nature we come to know that there is neither lover nor Beloved. There is no one to pray and no one to pray to. We do not even know that we are lost; we return from these states of merging only knowing that we gave ourself and were taken. Our gift of ourself was accepted so completely that we knew nothing. We looked towards Him and He took us in His arms, embraced us in oneness, dissolved us in nearness. For so many years we cried to Him, we called to Him, and when He came the meeting was so intimate that we knew nothing. But when we return from this merging of oneness, when the mind again surrounds us, we can see the footprints that led us to this shore, to the place where the two worlds meet. We can tell stories of the journey that led us to the edge of the heart’s infinite ocean, of the nights we called to Him, and the tears we cried in our calling. For so many years our need was all that we knew, a need born of the despair of separation, the deepest despair known to the soul. This need was our first prayer, planted in the soul by Him who loves us, who wants us for Himself. This need of the soul is the bond of love, the mystic’s pledge to remember Him. The awakening of this remembrance is the knowledge of our forgetfulness, the knowledge of separation. The lover is made to know that she is separate from her Beloved, that she has forgotten Him. Awakening to this knowledge, the lover brings into consciousness the soul’s need to return Home, to journey from separation to union.

Then Gai told me about the famous cup of the heart, which I should now begin to empty. The Sufis compare our spiritual heart, the seat of God within us, with a cup into which the love of God flows. This cup, however, needs to be emptied before it can be filled with Divine love. This emptying is a long process that requires courage, strength of character, determination, and, above all, sincerity. It is a process of reining in and eventually extinguishing the ego, of letting go of material needs, bad and unhealthy habits and emotional attachments in order to make room for God. Sufis often likened it to the process of dying and being born again. ‘Die before you die’ is a famous Sufi saying. This was the essence of every spiritual path, Gai told me.

The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.

There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.

The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds

The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.

There is a candle in the heart of man, waiting to be kindled. In separation from the Friend, there is a cut waiting to be stitched. O, you who are ignorant of endurance and the burning fire of love---- Love comes of its own free will, it can't be learned in any school.

The Sufi Islam practiced in northern India is quite different from the Shi'a Islam practiced in Lebannon, which in turn is different from the Sunni Islam practiced in Pakistan. Even within a single branch of Islam there are customs and practices that vary by region and across time. Thus, the Islam of seventh-century Arabia is different from the Wahhabism that exists today in Saudi Arabia.

This is a day of celebration! Today, we are divorcing the past and marrying the present. Dance, and you will find God in every room. Today, we are divorcing resentment and marrying forgiveness. Sing, and God will find you in every tune. Today, we are divorcing indifference and marrying love. Drink, and play that tambourine against your thighs. We have so much celebrating to do!

They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.

This continuos loop of Love Divine, like an Angel, sublime yet blind.

The true saint goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment.

To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.

Though I never told your name to anyone and forever I have cherished you within my soul alone, but since you always were dancing in my eyes, the whole world has seen you through my sight, and knew it that you are my beloved for whom my love is all meant for. Though I never confessed my love to anyone and forever I have loved you within my heart alone, but since you are always resonating in my songs, the whole world has heard you through my words, and knew it that you are my beloved for whom my life is all meant for. Though I never admitted my ecstasies to anyone and forever I have treasured you within my thoughts alone, but since you are always reflecting in my joys, the whole world has understood you through my delights, and knew it that you are my beloved for whom even my death is all meant for.