INTRODUCTION
“As-salaamu alaikum”
“Peace to you. from my heart to your heart”
Sufis are Muslim mystics whose spiritual lineage dates back to the great prophet Muhammad, founder of Islam. like all mystics, Sufis are not interested in an indirect knowledge of God, but in a personal experience of God. For Sufis, external forms of religion are only vehicles of a spiritual content which goes beyond all rites and beliefs.
The Sufi sage Shibli is said to have run through the streets carrying flaming coals, announcing that he was going to set fire to the Kaaba, the holiest place in Islam, so that Muslims would worry less about a place and more of the Lord of the Ka’aba. Such enthusiasm for the Truth has often led Sufis to be labeled heretics and horribly persecuted by orthodox Islamic authorities. Yet their wisdom has survived and inspired generations of spiritual seekers.
Sufism is a journey of discovery within and beyond ourselves: a pilgrimage to become the perfect servants of Allah: a love story with the Divine Beloved in which lovers merge into one mystical union. The Sufis may seem esoteric and mystifying, but in reality they are trying to tell us something so obvious that we do not understand it. God is everywhere and everything. We are God. There is nothing other than the Unity of God. It is only our own sense of being a separate ego that obscures the all-pervading Truth. Sufism is simply about seeing things as they really are – a mystical realization available to all.
When the Sufi saint Rabi’a heard Salih of Qazwin teaching “Knock and the door will open for you”, she reprimanded him: “What are you talking about Salih, the door has never been closed.”
The great mystic poet Jalaluddin Rumi wrote: “I knocked and the door opened, but I found that I was knocking from the inside. »
Allah
“Sufis approach God through many divine Names to express His different attributes, but the Name “Allah” combines and transcends all these attributes, Allah is the Supreme Reality. The word “Allah combines the roots “Al and ” La” to express “The Unity of Being and Nothingness”.
God embraces all opposites. As it says in the Holy Quran, He is the first and the last, the apparent and the hidden. “He is the soul of all souls, as Rumi says. He is not limited by any belief, but is the one God who speaks through all authentic religion, manifesting Himself in different ways suited to each individual seeker.
I have never known Allah the Mighty, except by the coincidence in Him of all opposites.
ABC SCAD AL-KHABRAZ
Allah is non-being and being, existence and non-existence. He is the relative and the Absolute. All these concepts belong to Allah, because there is nothing we can understand, write or speak that is not Allah.
ABD AL-KADER
Whatever you think of Allah, know that He is different from that!
ABD AL-KADER
Everything is a sign towards the Oneness of Allah.
AHMAD LEN ATA ALLAH
Saying “Allah Akbar” – “God is greatest” does not mean that He is greater than anything else, because there is nothing else that can be greater.
This means that it is too great to be perceived by the senses and too deep to be understood by the intellect. Too great, indeed, to be known by anything other than Him. Only God knows God.
AHMAD LEN ATA ALLAH
God is closer to man than the jugular vein.
QURAN 50.110
“God is your mirror in which you contemplate yourself and you are his mirror in which he contemplates his divine attributes.
LBN ARABI
“God said: “To reveal the secrets of my abundant love, I have created a mirror whose face is consciousness and whose back is the world. ”
JALALUDDIN RUMI
You have no idea how hard I looked for a gift to give you Nothing seemed right.
What’s the point of bringing gold to a gold and water to the sea All I found was like taking spices in the Orient It’s no good to give from the heart and the soul. You already have them, so I brought you a mirror. Look at you and remember me.
JALALUDDIN RUMI
“God is not limited to the way He appears to you by making Himself appropriate to your capacity to receive Him. Therefore, no other creature is obliged to obey the God you worship, for He appears to them in different ways. other forms:
LBN ARABI
“Do not cling exclusively to one particular belief so much that you disbelieve the rest, otherwise you will ignore much of what is good and miss the true Truth. Allah is omnipotent and omnipresent and is not contained in any religion, for He said in the Quran Wherever you turn, there is the face of Allah.
LBN ARABI
“Mystics speak in a hundred different ways, but if God is one and the Way is one, how can their meaning be other than one? What appears in different disguises is one essence. A variety of forms, but one unit of substance.
JALALUDDIN RUMI
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