Eating to your fill tamashas the mirror of the heart.

Eating to your fill tamashas the mirror of the heart.

To ponder over worldly matters creates obstacles in realization.

To ponder over worldly matters creates obstacles in realization.

Tasawwuf (Sufism) is bearing with all calamities and renouncing everything non-God.

Tasawwuf (Sufism) is bearing with all calamities and renouncing everything non-God.

He who marries talks a lot or travels much is a worldly person.

He who marries talks a lot or travels much is a worldly person.

Fear of God develops yearning for Him and obtains His grace.

Fear of God develops yearning for Him and obtains His grace.

To that one whom God has placed in the rank of His Tovers, He gives the vision of Himself, for He has sworn, saying: “By MY Glory, I will show him My Face and I will heal his soul by the vision of Myself.

To that one whom God has placed in the rank of His Tovers, He gives the vision of Himself, for He has sworn, saying: “By MY Glory, I will show him My Face and I will heal his soul by the vision of Myself.

He who loves the world can never get a taste for the Lord. Before the eyes of the Lord, the world is worth no more than a mosquito.

He who loves the world can never get a taste for the Lord. Before the eyes of the Lord, the world is worth no more than a mosquito.

When the enlightened one’s internal eyes are opened, his external eyes are blinded?

When the enlightened one’s internal eyes are opened, his external eyes are blinded?

Silence, fasting, avoidance of company of the people of the world are essentials of the path.

Silence, fasting, avoidance of company of the people of the world are essentials of the path.

The cold sigh that a dervish draws in separation (helplessness) is superior to a hundred-year worship.

The cold sigh that a dervish draws in separation (helplessness) is superior to a hundred-year worship.

When love is established in the heart of a servant, there is no place there for remembrance of man or demons or of Paradise or Hell, nor for anything except the remembrance of the Beloved and His grace.

When love is established in the heart of a servant, there is no place there for remembrance of man or demons or of Paradise or Hell, nor for anything except the remembrance of the Beloved and His grace.

It is our loss if we lack three things: handsome appearance combined with modesty, words well-spoken combined with reality, strong brotherliness combined with fidelity.

It is our loss if we lack three things: handsome appearance combined with modesty, words well-spoken combined with reality, strong brotherliness combined with fidelity.

A Sufi is he who is entirely devoted to God because the realization of God is his only mission.

A Sufi is he who is entirely devoted to God because the realization of God is his only mission.

A dry loaf is enough with which to entertain a Darvesh.

A dry loaf is enough with which to entertain a Darvesh.

Meditation is the gate of gnosis. It is the chief possession of the gnostic, that whereby the sincere and the God-fearing make progress on the journey to God.

Meditation is the gate of gnosis. It is the chief possession of the gnostic, that whereby the sincere and the God-fearing make progress on the journey to God.

The chief part of the recollection (dhikr) of God is keeping close to Him. He who is preoccupied with God, is separated from the creatures and those who are detached from the creatures have escaped to the regions of solitude and are alone with the sweetness of the recollection of God, and in proportion as the heart enters into communion with God, through recollection, it escapes from loneliness.

The chief part of the recollection (dhikr) of God is keeping close to Him. He who is preoccupied with God, is separated from the creatures and those who are detached from the creatures have escaped to the regions of solitude and are alone with the sweetness of the recollection of God, and in proportion as the heart enters into communion with God, through recollection, it escapes from loneliness.

Mystical training of self-examination is absolutely necessary for the ascetics since this is the only source of the attainment of purity. He says: “God has appointed self-mortification for the seeker, for the training of his soul.

Mystical training of self-examination is absolutely necessary for the ascetics since this is the only source of the attainment of purity. He says: “God has appointed self-mortification for the seeker, for the training of his soul.

Chivalry requires that you be just with other and that you don’t demand justice from them.

Chivalry requires that you be just with other and that you don’t demand justice from them.

Satisfaction (Rida) is feeling of tranquility which the seeker enjoys during the period of afflictions in his separation from God.

Satisfaction (Rida) is feeling of tranquility which the seeker enjoys during the period of afflictions in his separation from God.

Weep and ponder on the end (of tife).

Weep and ponder on the end (of tife).