Bayazid Bastami
Sufi Quotes 14

If the eight paradises are exhibited in our cell and the dominion of both the world along with their code is given to us, we will not forgo that one sigh which bursts out from the depth of the heart at dawn in recollection (of God) in the state of longing for Him.
If the eight paradises are exhibited in our cell and the dominion of both the world along with their code is given to us, we will not forgo that one sigh which bursts out from the depth of the heart at dawn in recollection (of God) in the state of longing for Him.

When God loves a man, He endows him with three qualities in token thereof:
a bounty like that of the sea, a sympathy like that of the sun and a humility like that of the earth.
No suffering can be too great, no devotion too high, for the piercing insight and burning faith of true lover.
When God loves a man, He endows him with three qualities in token thereof:
a bounty like that of the sea, a sympathy like that of the sun and a humility like that of the earth.
No suffering can be too great, no devotion too high, for the piercing insight and burning faith of true lover.

I triply divorced the world and alone proceeded to the Alone. I stood before the Presence and cried: “Lord God! I desire not but Thee. If I possess Thee, I possess all’... when God recognized my sincerity, the first grace that he accorded me was that He removed chaff of the self before me.”
I triply divorced the world and alone proceeded to the Alone. I stood before the Presence and cried: “Lord God! I desire not but Thee. If I possess Thee, I possess all’... when God recognized my sincerity, the first grace that he accorded me was that He removed chaff of the self before me.”