Daily Sufi Quotes

Bismillah

[dailysufiquotes]

All that you witness

is the act of one

alone within

the cloistering veils,

But when he removes the screen

you see none but him;

no doubt lingers

about the shapes and forms,

And you realize

when the truth is shown,

that by his light you were guided

to his actions in the shadows.

- ‘Umar Ibn al-Farid

[dailysufiquotes]

Preacher, it is all in vain you preach to me,

No business of anyone’s but mine

Where I have sinned and what my end will be.

I ponder too on subtleties divine—

Pray solve me this: how Allah from the void

The waist of my Beloved made so fine

That it exists but in the lover’s thought,

Nor can be apprehended of the eye,

A metaphysic fancy of the mind—

Solve me this riddle, preacher: how and why.

Again, you promise, when we leave behind

This jasmined earth, its roses and its dew,

Eight paradises up there in the sky;

In truth, it gives a man a haste to die

To think of living after death with you!

Listen! One corner of the earth with her

Is more to me than all the stars on high;

Down here’s my heaven, though yours may be up there!

What if to ruin all my life has gone?

Upon that very ruin do I rear

This building of my dreams, and very fair

Is it to dwell in and to look upon—

This tavern-temple of the Thought of Her.

And, if to you my fate should seem unkind,

Unjust my love, and oft-times harsh to me,

It is enough that she it was designed

This exquisite anguish of my destiny.

Hafiz is but a pipe for her to play;

So that he feels the sweetness of her breath

Through all his being make its thrilling way,

He does not heed what any preacher says;

And only when she takes her lips away

Shall Hafiz taste the bitterness of death.

- Hafiz of Shiraz, Ode 39

trans. Richard Le Gallienne, The Page Company, Boston. 1903.

[sufisofsindh]

You remember Us truly in your heart and soul, only when you have forgotten both the worlds.

~ Shah Nimatullah Wali (1330–1431)

[dailysufiquotes]

Alif Waw

(done by me)

[sufisofsindh]

Dhikr/ Zikr (Remembrance) is measured not in number, but in intensity of presence.

~ Bayazid Bistami

[meissasarr]

When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.

Shams Tabrizi (via meissasarr)

[sufisofsindh]

[dailysufiquotes]

"Corbin the Traditionalist, enemy of all secular norms; Corbin the Heretic, even spiritual anarchist - which is the ‘real’ Corbin? Like his mentor and guide, Ibn ’Arabi, Corbin produced such a sea of thought that a great variety of souls may fish therein with profit. He reconciled and saw similarities where others see only contradiction (for example, between Gnostic Dualism and Radical Monism) - and this is a puissant definition of genius, is it not? And yet he was no Prometheus, no Beethoven, no Heidigger - nor was he simply a scholar, a sifter of dust. Perhaps the term ‘contemplative metascholarship’ needs to be coined for him; in any case, the pen falters, mere labels seem obnoxious. A saint of the Imagination."

[tawakkull]

You should know that known things can be divided into two sorts. One sort can be defined, and the other sort cannot be defined. Those who know and speak about love agree that it is one of the things that cannot be defined. A person recognizes it when it abides within himself and when it is his own attribute. He does not know what it is, but he does not deny its existence.

Ibn Al Arabi (k.s)

[dailysufiquotes]

Sufi festivals, such as Sufi Culture Festival in Fez, are held every year, drawing crowds from as far away as South America.

[dailysufiquotes]

The Study Quran: A Review

The Study Quran: A Review[1] Introduction The Study Quran (SQ), a project of HarperCollins, can perhaps best be understood as an analog to its forerunner, the HarperCollins Study Bible. Originally published in 1993, the SB is an ecumenical project. Though various denominational actors and figures are cited, the SB bears no preference for one over…

[reignofkemer-deactivated2020082]

I saw my lord with the eye of my heart I said: “no doubt it’s You! It’s You!” You are the One who encompassed every “where” so that there is no “where”, except You are there “Where” has no “where” in regards to you for “where to know where You are nor can imagination, imagine You for imagination to know where You are Your knowledge encompasses everything so that everything I see is You and in my annihilation, is the annihilation of my annihilation and in my annihilation, I found You.

Imam Ali (via reignofkemer)

[gnlxyng]

Nuri Baba, a Bektashi (islamic sect/cult), Ottoman Empire.

[tasawwuf-deactivated20200813]

A human being becomes a human being by virtue of character, not by appearance.

Hazrat Junaid Baghdaadi Ra (via tasawwuf)

[dailysufiquotes]

Mystical images inspired by Sufi saints – in pictures

Artist Maïmouna Guerresi’s series Giants is inspired by the “greatness and spiritual beauty” of African Muslim saints

[kateoplis]

“During dhikr, we fly to the heavens”

“Sudanese Sufis make up one of the world’s largest national communities practicing Sufism – a dimension of Islam often seen as ‘mystical’ due to its followers’ pursuit of a personal, inner path to God. The Qadiriyya is just one of several orders, or tariqa, in Sudan. What unites each, however, is the belief that an inner path to God can be found through dhikr – absolute absorption in worship during which prayers, dances and spins may be repeated with enough fervour to induce a trance to overcome the self.”

Sufism: The most beautiful dimension of Islam 

[nemfrog]

A young dervish in training _Mysticism and magic in Turkey_ 1912