Divine loves means that the lover takes on the Beloved’s attributes in place of his own.

Divine loves means that the lover takes on the Beloved’s attributes in place of his own.

Gnosis (Marifat) is the hovering of the heart between declaring God too great to be comprehended and declaring Him too mighty to be perceived. It consists in knowing that whatever may be imagined in the heart, God is the opposite of it.

Gnosis (Marifat) is the hovering of the heart between declaring God too great to be comprehended and declaring Him too mighty to be perceived. It consists in knowing that whatever may be imagined in the heart, God is the opposite of it.

The journey from the corporeal world to the Hereafter is easy for the believer, but relinquishing creation for the sake of Allah is difficult. And the journey from the self to Allah is intensely difficult, but patience with God is still more difficult. He also said: “Patience is drinking down bitterness without a frowning look.”

The journey from the corporeal world to the Hereafter is easy for the believer, but relinquishing creation for the sake of Allah is difficult. And the journey from the self to Allah is intensely difficult, but patience with God is still more difficult. He also said: “Patience is drinking down bitterness without a frowning look.”

Gnosis is the realization of thy ignorance when His knowledge comes, He continues to say: He (God) is at once the subject and object of gnosis.

Gnosis is the realization of thy ignorance when His knowledge comes, He continues to say: He (God) is at once the subject and object of gnosis.

One moment's forgetfulness of the Lord ruins a thousand years’ worship.

One moment's forgetfulness of the Lord ruins a thousand years’ worship.