Sahl bin Abdullah Tustari
Sufi Quotes 28
A man came to Sahl and told him; “A robber broke into my house and stole my belongings!” Sahl said! “Give thanks to God, if a robber had entered your heart and corrupted your belief in God’s Oneness, then what would you do?
A man came to Sahl and told him; “A robber broke into my house and stole my belongings!” Sahl said! “Give thanks to God, if a robber had entered your heart and corrupted your belief in God’s Oneness, then what would you do?
Not a day passes but that the Exalted cries out; “O My servant, you treat me unjustly. I remember you, but you forget Me. I invite you to Myself, but you go to other. I take away afflictions from you, but you continue to sin. O son of Adam, what will you have to say on the morrow when you meet Me?”
Not a day passes but that the Exalted cries out; “O My servant, you treat me unjustly. I remember you, but you forget Me. I invite you to Myself, but you go to other. I take away afflictions from you, but you continue to sin. O son of Adam, what will you have to say on the morrow when you meet Me?”
The eye by which you see the truth, the ear by which you hear the truth, are the tongue by which you proclaim the truth-are ail the secret of the soul.
The eye by which you see the truth, the ear by which you hear the truth, are the tongue by which you proclaim the truth-are ail the secret of the soul.
The first station of trust in God is that the servant be between the hands of God exactly as the dead body is between the hands of the one who washes the dead.
The first station of trust in God is that the servant be between the hands of God exactly as the dead body is between the hands of the one who washes the dead.
When God created the world, He placed sin and ignorance within satisfaction of the appetite and knowledge and wisdom within hunger. When Sahl hungered, he was powerful, and whenever he ate, he became weak.
When God created the world, He placed sin and ignorance within satisfaction of the appetite and knowledge and wisdom within hunger. When Sahl hungered, he was powerful, and whenever he ate, he became weak.