Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi MastersThe Golden Sufi Center, 1995 M01 1 - 280 pages Sufism is a path of love. With the passion and depth of feeling that belong to lovers, Sufi masters through the centuries have described the soul's journey towards union with God. This collection of sayings, dating from the ninth century to the present day, follows the stages of this journey, allowing the masters to beckon us along this ancient path. Speaking with the experience of those who have tasted the mysteries of divine love, their words reach beyond the mind and into the heart. Travelling the Path of Love is offered as an inspiration to all those who are drawn to follow love's call. |
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ABÛ SA‘ÎD IBN AL-HALLÂJ AL-JUNAYD ALÎ Allâh ANONYMOUS answered appears asked attained ATTÂR attributes Baghdad BÂYEZÎD BISTÂMÎ became become Beloved comes complete created desire disciple Divine early essence everything existence experiences eyes face fire follow friends give goal God’s HADÎTH hear heart hidden IBN ARABÎ inner journey Junayd knowledge known learned light live longing look Lord lover master means meet mirror MUHAMMAD mysteries mystical mystical path Naqshbandi nature never night once opened pain passed path permission Persian poet poetry polished prayer present quote RÂBI‘A reach reflection remains remembrance replied RÛMÎ SA‘ÎD IBN ABÎ-L-KHAYR saint secret seek separation servant Sheikh shines silence sometimes soul speak spiritual stage Sufi Sufism teacher tell Thee things Thou TRADITIONAL true Truth turn ÛMÎ union veil Whoever wishes worship
Popular passages
Page 201 - I am he whom I love, and he whom I love is I: We are two spirits dwelling in one body. If thou seest me, thou seest him, And if thou seest him, thou seest us both."* 1 Nicholson, Myslics of Islam, pp.
Page 174 - Amidst the flames outflashing — only God I saw. Myself with mine own eyes I saw most clearly, But when I looked with God's eyes — only God I saw.
Page 115 - God is the light of the heavens and the earth; His light is as a niche in which is a lamp, and the lamp is in a glass, the glass is as though it were a glittering star...
Page 174 - In favor and in fortune — only God I saw. In prayer and fasting, in praise and contemplation, In the religion of the Prophet — only God I saw. Neither soul nor body, accident nor substance, Qualities nor causes — only God I saw. I opened mine eyes and by the light of His face around me In all the eye discovered — only God I saw.
Page 115 - God is the Light of the heavens and the earth; the likeness of His Light is as a niche wherein is a lamp (the lamp in a glass, the glass as it were a glittering star) kindled from a Blessed Tree, an olive that is neither of the East nor of the West...
Page 81 - O God, the night has passed and the day has dawned. How I long to know if Thou hast accepted (my prayers) or if Thou hast rejected them. Therefore console me for it is Thine to console this state of mine. Thou hast given me life and cared for me and Thine is the glory. If Thou wert to drive me from Thy door, yet would I not forsake it, for the love that I bear in my heart towards Thee.
Page 179 - I am the hearing whereby he heareth and the sight whereby he seeth and the hand wherewith he smiteth and the foot whereon he walketh.
Page 126 - God is necessary to us in order that we may exist, while we are necessary to Him in order that He may be manifested to Himself*.
Page 158 - God deposited within man knowledge of all things, then prevented him from perceiving what He had deposited within him .... This is one of the divine mysteries which reason denies and considers totally impossible. The nearness of this mystery to those ignorant of it is like God's nearness to His servant, as mentioned in His words, 'We are nearer to him than you, but you do not see
Page 3 - the Sufi is he who claims, from the first, at reaching God. . . . Until he has found what he sought, he takes no rest, nor does he give heed to any person. For Thy sake I haste over land and water: over the plain I pass and the mountain I cleave and from everything I meet I turn my face, until the time when I reach that place where I am alone with Thee.