God is the enduring one, and everything else is transient.
God told Prophet David, 'The servant dearest to Me is one who doesn't seek Me out of fear or hope for reward, but to fulfill their duty to My divinity.'
My servant seeks closeness to Me so I can make them My friend, and once they're My friend, I become their ear, eye, and tongue.
Those who understand themselves, understand God.
God is more tender to His servants than a mother to her nursing child.
God created man in His own likeness.
जो इन सीमाओं का उल्लंघन करता है वह 'अपनी आत्मा को गलत करता है,' जैसा कि कुरान में लिखा गया है।
ईश्वर की पूजा और उनकी स constant स्मृति का अर्थ है एक निश्चित डिग्री की कठोरता और शारीरिक इच्छाओं को रोकना।
Accordingly, it behoves you not to seem to be anything except what you really are. It is inward glow that makes the Sufi, not the religious habit.
He can serve God Almighty only when he cuts off all his selfish interests relating either to this world or to the next, and worships God absolutely for His sake alone, inasmuch as whoever worships God for anything's sake worships himself and not God.
There are two ways: one of knowledge and one of action. Action without knowledge, although it may be good, is ignorant and imperfect, but knowledge, even if it be unaccompanied by action, is glorious and noble.
Whoever is ignorant of himself is yet more ignorant of other things; and inasmuch as a man is bound to know God, he must first know himself, in order that by rightly perceiving his own temporality he may recognize the eternity of God.
And his soul cried out to them, 'Sons of my ancestral mother, you who ride the tides, how often have you sailed in my dreams?'
When love calls to you, follow it. Love's path can be difficult and demanding, but yield to it nonetheless. Love can hurt and shatter your dreams, yet believe in it anyway. Love will both uplift and challenge you, helping you grow while also pruning away what's unnecessary.
Love only gives itself and takes from itself. Love doesn't possess, nor does it want to be possessed, because love is enough on its own.
You give very little when you give only your possessions. True giving happens when you give of yourself.
And then there are those who give with joy, and that joy itself is their reward.
In reality, it's life that gives to life. You, who consider yourself a giver, are merely a witness to this process.
To be idle is to become disconnected from the rhythms of nature and to fall out of step with the progression of life, which moves forward with dignity and humility towards the infinite.
All knowledge is useless unless it is applied through work, and all work is meaningless unless it is done with love. When you work with love, you connect yourself with yourself, with others, and with God.