 | Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee - 1992 - 172 pages
...battle the Self but surrenders itself into being a vehicle for the Beloved to experience His world: "My servant ceases not to draw nigh unto Me by works...am the eye by which he sees and the ear by which he hears.*7 This hadîth qudsî (extra-Qur'anic revelation) outlines the process through which the conscious... | |
 | Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee - 1996 - 208 pages
...have been sacrificed, we can fulfill the deepest function of servanthood, to be His eyes and ears: My servant ceases not to draw nigh unto Me by -works...the eye by -which he sees and the ear by -which he hears.15 As His eyes and ears, the wayfarer has a dual function. Looking through the wayfarer, the... | |
 | Zailan Moris - 2003 - 244 pages
...Such a condition or state of being is described by a hadith qudsi in the following manner: My (God) servant ceases not to draw nigh unto Me by works of devotion, until I love him. When I love a servant, I the Lord, am his ear so that he hears by Me, I am his eye, so that he sees... | |
 | David Waines - 2003 - 404 pages
...the desired inward state: "My servant does not cease drawing near Me with devotions of his free will until I love him; and when I love him, I am the hearing with which he hears, the sight with which he sees, the hand with which he grasps and the foot... | |
 | Frithjof Schuon - 2005 - 564 pages
...mouth of the Messenger: "My slave ceaseth not to draw nigh unto Me by devotions freely accomplished, until I love him; and when I love him, I am the hearing whereby he heareth and the sight whereby he seeth and the hand wherewith he smiteth and the... | |
 | Patrick Laude - 2006 - 250 pages
...binding upon him; and My slave ceaseth not to draw near unto Me with added devotions of his free will until I love him; and when I love him I am the Hearing wherewith he heareth and the Sight wherewith he seeth and the Hand whereby he graspeth and... | |
 | Jean-Louis Michon, Roger Gaetani - 2006 - 330 pages
...mouth of the Messenger: "My servant ceaseth not to draw nigh unto Me by devotions freely accomplished14 until I love him; and when I love him, I am the Hearing whereby he heareth and the Sight whereby he seeth and the Hand wherewith he smiteth and the... | |
 | Roger Allen, Roger M. A. Allen, D. S. Richards - 2006 - 419 pages
...referred to in the final verse of the poem: And My servant continues to draw near Me through willing acts of devotion until I love him, and when I love him, I become his ear with which he hears, the eye with which he sees.12 Ibn al- Arabl composed a great deal... | |
 | Frithjof Schuon - 2006 - 218 pages
...mouth of the Messenger: "My slave ceaseth not to draw nigh unto Me by devotions freely accomplished 14 until I love him; and when I love him, I am the Hearing whereby he heareth and the Sight whereby he seeth and the Hand wherewith he smiteth and the... | |
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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. 
