June 2012
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“Man is finite, but love is infinite; and finite has no control over the...”
– Abul Hassan Ali Hujwiri
May 2012
40 posts
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Alḥamdulillāh ad infinitum.
Because even if we spent our entire life thanking Him, it would still fall short, way short.
“When my heart came to rule in the world of love,
it was freed from both belief...”
– Mahsati Ganjavi
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Anonymous asked: Salaam. I really like someone, but she has intimated I am not perfect in terms of deen. I really want her, what do I do?
“The intellectual is always showing off, the lover is always getting lost.
The...”
– Rūmī
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“Don’t give up for lack of presence; keep moving your tongue in dhikr...”
– Shaykh ʿAbd al Karim Yahya
“It is confirmed with people
that I am a passionate lover,
although they do not...”
– Shaykh Muḥyi ad-Dīn ibn ᶜArabī al-Ḥātimī | Fuṣūṣuᵓl-Ḥikam º27
(via the beautiful ryanbhilliard)
“Even if God did not threaten the disobedient,
one would be obliged not to...”
– Imam Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
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Anonymous asked: In your previous answer, you talked about "submitting" how can you submit to a God you have never seen? How can you follow a messanger you have never met?
Anonymous asked: Why are you Muslim? (How did you come to believe in God, why did you choose to accept the Islamic faith out of all others, etc etc)
Anonymous asked: You're so very intriguing. I feel like I need to get to know you more.
“All that is left to us by tradition
is mere words.
It is up to us
to find out...”
– Ibn ʿArabī
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“I love righteous people, even though I am not one of them,
that I might gain...”
– Imām al-Shāfi‘ī
“The life of lovers is in death:
you’ll not win the Beloved’s heart
unless you...”
– Rūmī
All of this love. Every piece. Every part of all the love in this world.
It is all just a reflection.
An echo.Of one single Source.
Of a single love that you know, and I know, because we knew it before we could know. We were loved before we could love. You were given before you could give or know what it was to give. It is the love that your heart was created to know. It is the love that...
“Beyond all that we have done,
beyond all that we think we are,
lies Your...”
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The great knower of Allāh, Imam of al-ʾAzhar: sayyidi Shaykh Șāliḥ al-Ja’farī, founder of the Ja’farīyya‘Aḥmadiyya Muḥammadiyya Ṭarīqah.
May Allāh perfume his grave.
Fātiha.
Āyatu-l-kursī
B-ismi-llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm |...
“How many lessons there are,
and how little they are taken!”
– Imam Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
Anonymous asked: Can you please source any Hadiths or anything please. Thanks.
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A man asked the Prophet Muhammad [صلى الله عليه وسلم]: "O God's Messenger! What person is most deserving of my good treatment?"
He [صلى الله عليه وسلم] said: "Your mother."
The man then asked: "And then who?"
The Prophet [صلى الله عليه وسلم] replied: "Your mother."
The man asked again: "And then who?"
The Prophet [صلى الله عليه وسلم] again replied: "Your mother."
The man again asked: "And then who?"
Finally, the Prophet [صلى الله عليه وسلم] said: "Then, your father."
“Some people want Allāhs reward.
Some people His grace.
Some just want Him.”
– Imām Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Laṭīf Finch
“The believer: his happiness is in his face, and his sadness is in his heart....”
– Al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī
“The Arabic word تكلم (to speak), has another root meaning كلم which means to...”
“A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at...”
– Abraham Joshua Heschel
“The grieving chest will find honey; do not let
the heart rot. The manic...”
– Hāfez
“I’d rather the harm that comes with an open heart, than the suffocation...”
– Amir Sulaiman
“Become realised in your attributes, and He will strengthen you with His:...”
– Ibn Átāillah al-Iskandarī
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“Belief consists of affirmation by the tongue and acceptance by the heart.”
– Imam al-ṬaḥāwĪ
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“I fear separation from Allah.
I fear that at the time of death,
I may be...”
– Rābiʿah al-Baṣrī
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Anonymous asked: What is Adab?
“Treat money as if it were the dirt below your feet.
Because when dirt comes...”
– Imam Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
Someone once asked the Rose: “Do you not find pain when one breaks you for your picking?”
The Rose replied: “When I see what bliss one receives from my picking, all my pain is forgotten.”
April 2012
65 posts
“Humble living does not diminish. It fills.
Going back to a simpler self gives...”
– Rūmī
“The only thing that links us to ʾIblīs is vanity,
he thought he was better than...”
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“You don’t need to justify your love,
you don’t need to explain your love;
you...”
– Miguel Ruiz
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“I have found nothing in all the worlds
That could match His love,
This love...”
– Rābiʿah al-Baṣrī
“If your patience is like that of Noah
in the sadness of the storm,
affliction...”
– Hāfez (via theconsciousmuslim)
“You are cold, but you expect kindness.
What you do comes back in the same form....”
– Rūmī (via trusimplicity)
“Walk now, that you may run later or face the unwanted from behind.”