A valuable collection of quotes and sayings
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
The true nature of things
Whoever desires Paradise, proceeds towards goodness; whoever fears Hell, refrains from the impulses of passions; whoever believes firmly in death, detests worldy life; and whoever recognizes the wordly life, the trials and tribulations [of life] become slight for him.
-Ali ibn Abu Talib (RA)
some Ibn al-Qayyim quotes
There is no joy for someone who has no sorrow.
There is no pleasure for the one who has no patience.
No bliss for someone with no misery.
and no rest for the one with no fatigue.
When someone is a little tired, he has a long rest.
When he endures the difficulty of steadfastness for a time that leads him to eternal life.
All that the people of eternal bliss are in is steadfastness for a time
-Ibn al -Qayyim
Yearning for Allah and His meeting is like the gentle breeze blowing upon the heart, extinguishing the blaze of the Dunya. Whosoever caused his heart to settle with his Lord shall be in a state, calm and tranquility and whosoever sent it amongst the people shall be disturbed and excessively perturbed. -Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah
The heart becomes sick as the body becomes sick and its remedy is al-Tawbah and protection [from transgression] It becomes rusty as a mirror becomes rusty and its clarity is obtained by remembrance It becomes naked as the body becomes naked and its beautification is al-Taqwa It becomes hungry and thirsty as the body becomes hungry and its food and drink are knowledge love, dependence, repentance, and servitude. -Ibn al-Qayyim
There is no pleasure for the one who has no patience.
No bliss for someone with no misery.
and no rest for the one with no fatigue.
When someone is a little tired, he has a long rest.
When he endures the difficulty of steadfastness for a time that leads him to eternal life.
All that the people of eternal bliss are in is steadfastness for a time
-Ibn al -Qayyim
Yearning for Allah and His meeting is like the gentle breeze blowing upon the heart, extinguishing the blaze of the Dunya. Whosoever caused his heart to settle with his Lord shall be in a state, calm and tranquility and whosoever sent it amongst the people shall be disturbed and excessively perturbed. -Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah
The heart becomes sick as the body becomes sick and its remedy is al-Tawbah and protection [from transgression] It becomes rusty as a mirror becomes rusty and its clarity is obtained by remembrance It becomes naked as the body becomes naked and its beautification is al-Taqwa It becomes hungry and thirsty as the body becomes hungry and its food and drink are knowledge love, dependence, repentance, and servitude. -Ibn al-Qayyim
Sufi path of love
Quotes from the Book The Sufi Path of Love:
The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi By William C. Chittick
Man is called a "rational animal." So man is two things: the food of his animality in this world is this sensual passions and desires. But that which is his quintessence--its food is knowledge, wisdom, and the vision of God. Man's animality is fleeing God while his humanity is fleeing the world. In your one existence, two persons are warring. - Rumi
He should never fear the trials and tribulations of the spiritual path, which represent so many deaths in relation to the false life of this world and the ego. For the death of one thing is always the rebirth of something better and higher. -Chittick
God has made nonexistence appear existent and respectable; He has made Existence appear in the guise of nonexistence. He has hidden the Sea and made the foam visible. He has concealed the Wind and shown you the dust. -Rumi
Rumi uses "poverty" synonymously with annihilation. The dervish is "poor" because he has nothing of "his own" and is totally empty of selfhood. -Chittick
Poverty will yeild pride in the next world. -Rumi
What is love? Perfect thirst- So let me explain the Water of Life. -Rumi
Fear is not even a hair before Love; in the Religion of Love, all things are sacrificed. Love is an attribute of God, but fear is an attribute of the servant afflicted by lust and gluttony. -Rumi
Love gives birth to a thousand forms; this world is full of its paintings -Rumi
"The thirst in our souls is the attraction of this Water. We belong to It and It belongs to us." -Rumi
God is the only object worthy of our love, for He is the True Beloved; every other object of love veils His face. -Chittick
Look not at your own vileness and weakness look at your aspiration..[..]..seeking is your key to your objects of desire, it is your army and the victory of your banners. -Rumi
Any hardship or suffering the world inflicts is only a shadow of our separation from God. -Chittick
The more man suffers, the more he desires to be free of the source of his suffering, his self existence, attachment to himself and the world. The only way to flee from suffering is to seek refuge from ones own ego with God. -Chittick
Between God and His servant are just two veils; all other veils become manifests from these two: health and wealth. He who is healthy says, "Where is God? I don't know and I don't see." As soon as he begins to suffer, he says, "Oh God! Oh God!" and he begins sharing his secrets with Him and talking to Him. So you see that health was his veil and God was hidden under his pain. So long as man has riches, he gathers together all the means of achieving his desires. Night and day he busies himself with them. But as soon as he loses his wealth, his ego weakens and he turns round about God. -Rumi
Whenever you turn your heart toward something, His severity will detach you from it--fix not your heart on any place, do not persist. -Rumi
Life without Him is my death, glory without Him is my shame! -Rumi
O Thou who art our Benefactor, "make firm our feet" [II 250]--Without Thee ease is tribulation and health is sickness. -Rumi
Union with this world is separation from that world. The health of this body is the sickness of the spirit -Rumi
Love is a rosegarden--take nourishment from it. The tree of poverty fills the inward garden with fruit. -Rumi
..for those self interested motives are like veils upon the eye, twisted around the vision like blindfolds. -Rumi
The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi By William C. Chittick
Man is called a "rational animal." So man is two things: the food of his animality in this world is this sensual passions and desires. But that which is his quintessence--its food is knowledge, wisdom, and the vision of God. Man's animality is fleeing God while his humanity is fleeing the world. In your one existence, two persons are warring. - Rumi
He should never fear the trials and tribulations of the spiritual path, which represent so many deaths in relation to the false life of this world and the ego. For the death of one thing is always the rebirth of something better and higher. -Chittick
God has made nonexistence appear existent and respectable; He has made Existence appear in the guise of nonexistence. He has hidden the Sea and made the foam visible. He has concealed the Wind and shown you the dust. -Rumi
Rumi uses "poverty" synonymously with annihilation. The dervish is "poor" because he has nothing of "his own" and is totally empty of selfhood. -Chittick
Poverty will yeild pride in the next world. -Rumi
What is love? Perfect thirst- So let me explain the Water of Life. -Rumi
Fear is not even a hair before Love; in the Religion of Love, all things are sacrificed. Love is an attribute of God, but fear is an attribute of the servant afflicted by lust and gluttony. -Rumi
Love gives birth to a thousand forms; this world is full of its paintings -Rumi
"The thirst in our souls is the attraction of this Water. We belong to It and It belongs to us." -Rumi
God is the only object worthy of our love, for He is the True Beloved; every other object of love veils His face. -Chittick
Look not at your own vileness and weakness look at your aspiration..[..]..seeking is your key to your objects of desire, it is your army and the victory of your banners. -Rumi
Any hardship or suffering the world inflicts is only a shadow of our separation from God. -Chittick
The more man suffers, the more he desires to be free of the source of his suffering, his self existence, attachment to himself and the world. The only way to flee from suffering is to seek refuge from ones own ego with God. -Chittick
Between God and His servant are just two veils; all other veils become manifests from these two: health and wealth. He who is healthy says, "Where is God? I don't know and I don't see." As soon as he begins to suffer, he says, "Oh God! Oh God!" and he begins sharing his secrets with Him and talking to Him. So you see that health was his veil and God was hidden under his pain. So long as man has riches, he gathers together all the means of achieving his desires. Night and day he busies himself with them. But as soon as he loses his wealth, his ego weakens and he turns round about God. -Rumi
Whenever you turn your heart toward something, His severity will detach you from it--fix not your heart on any place, do not persist. -Rumi
Life without Him is my death, glory without Him is my shame! -Rumi
O Thou who art our Benefactor, "make firm our feet" [II 250]--Without Thee ease is tribulation and health is sickness. -Rumi
Union with this world is separation from that world. The health of this body is the sickness of the spirit -Rumi
Love is a rosegarden--take nourishment from it. The tree of poverty fills the inward garden with fruit. -Rumi
..for those self interested motives are like veils upon the eye, twisted around the vision like blindfolds. -Rumi
one of my favorite quotes
i looked at all friends, and did not find a better friend than safeguarding the tongue.
i thought about all dresses, but did not find a better dress than piety.
I thought about all types of wealth, but did not find a better wealth than contentment in little.
i thought about all types of good deeds, but did not find a better deed than offering good advice.
i looked at all types of sustenance, but did not find a better sustenance than patience
-Umar (RA)
on patience
The Prophet (SAWS) said in the sahih hadith: "Whoever abstains from asking others, Allah will make him contented, and whoever tries to make himself self-sufficient, Allah will make him self-sufficient. And whoever remains patient, Allah will make him patient. No one has ever been given a bestowal better and more extensive than patience." (Related by alBukhari (3/265)
Friday, August 9, 2013
foolish
How strange and foolish is man. He loses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth. He ruins his present while worrying about his future, but weeps in the future by recalling his past. He lives as though death shall never come to him but he dies in a way as if he were never born.
- Ali ibn Abi Talib
- Ali ibn Abi Talib
when one door closes ...
As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better. You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial to you."
-Imam al-Ghazali
-Imam al-Ghazali
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