SUFI
WISDOM
JOHN BALDOCK
| I was a hidden treasure and I longed to be known. So I created the Creation so that I may be known. |
| hadith qudsi |
| A llah possesses a drink which is reserved for his intimate friends [awliya']: when they drink they become intoxicated, when they become intoxicated they become joyful, when they become joyful they become sweet, when they become sweet they begin to melt, when they begin to melt they become free, when they become free they seek, when they seek they find, when they find they arrive, when they arrive they join, and when they join, there is no dirrerence between them and their Beloved. |
| ALI IBN ABU TALIB (600 - 661) |
| B
e drunk on Love, for only Love exists; there's No meeting the Beloved without Love as herald. They ask, "What's Love?" Reply, 'Renouncing the will.' He who hasn't tossed will aside doesn't know God. The Lover is a monarch: It's Love and the lover that live eternally; |
| MEVLANA LALALU'DDIN RUMI (1207 - 1273) |
| Y
ou fancy this world is permanent of
itself And endures because of its own nature, But really it is a ray of light from the Truth And within it the Truth is concealed. |
| SA'D
AL-DIN MAHMUD SHABISTARI (c1250 - 1320) The Secret Rose Garden |
| A fter the Truth what is there save error? |
| Qur'an, 10:32 |
| D escribe an existence as you will; if you wish, you can say it is creature; if you wish, you can say it is God; and if you wish, you can say it is God-creature; or else, if you wish, you can say that it isn't God in every aspect and that it isn't creature in every aspect; or yet again you can speak of perplexity. |
| MUHAYIDDIN
IBN ARABI (1165 - 1240) Fusus al-Hikam |
| F or thirty years I went in search of God, and when I opened my eyes at the end of this time, I discovered that it was really He who sought for me. |
| ABU YAZID AL-BISTAMI (d. 875) |
| T he first step in this affair [Sufism] is the breaking of ink-pots and the tearing-up of books and forgetting of all kinds of knowledge. |
| ABU SA'ID IBN ABI 'L-KHAYR )967 - 1049) |
| S
omeone asked the Holy Prophet -
"What dost thou say concerning the things of the world?' The Prophet said - 'What can I say about them: Things which are aquired with hard labour, Preserved with watchfulness, And left with regret.' |
| JABIR IBN 'ABDULLAH AL-ANSARI (d. 1088) |
| R
ise above time and space, Pass by the world, and be to yourself your own world. |
| SA'D
AL-DIN MAHMUD SHABISTARI (c1250 - 1320) The Secret Rose Garden |
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