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Chapter 9: Pearls

The Sufis are folk who have preferred God to everything so that God has preferred them to everything.

-- Hazarat Dhu’l Nun

To be a Sufi is to give up all worries and there is no worse worry than yourself. When you are occupied with self you are separated from God. The way to God is but one step: the step out of yourself.

-- Hazarat Abu Sa’id Ibn Abi-Khar

Sufism is staying at the lover’s door even when you are driven away.

-- Hazarat Rudhbari

When Abu Sa’id Ibn Abi-Khar was asked what Sufism entailed he replied: “Whatever you have in your mind –forget it; whatever you have in your hand –give it; whatever is to be your fate –face it!”

-- Hazarat Abu Sa’id Ibn Abi-Khar

The true Sufi is he that is nothing.

-- Traditional

I saw my Lord in my dreams and I asked, “How am I to find you?” He replied, “Leave yourself and come!”

-- Hazarat Bayezid Bistami

The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind, but “the true saint” goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment.

-- Hazarat Abu Sa’id Ibn Abi-Khar

Shibli sought Junayd as a teacher and said, 'you are recommended as an expert on pearls (enlightenment and wisdom) ... Either give me one or sell one to me.'

If I sell you one you will not have the price of it and if I give you one, having so easily come by it you will not realize its value. Junayd replied.

Do like me; plunge head-first into this sea, and if you wait patiently you will obtain your pearl.'

-- Hazarat Al Junayd

It is the grave error for anyone to imagine he will attain anything or that anything will be revealed to him of the path without persistent striving on his path.

-- Hazarat Abu uthman al-hiri

When you think you have found Him, that very instant you have lost Him. And when you think you have lost Him then you have found Him.

-- Hazarat Abu Said ibn abi-l-khayr

The saints of God are known by three signs: their thought is of God, their dwelling is in God, and their business is with God.

-- Hazarat Ma'ruf al-karkhi

Oh Lord, nourish me not with love but with the desire for love.

-- Hazarat Ibn Arabi

There is a polish for everything that taketh away rust;
And the polish of the heart is the invocation of Allah (God).

-- Hadith

Hatred cannot be overcome by hatred, nor anger by anger. Anger is fire, and God created the jinns and their leader, satan, out of that fire. Because of his hatred and anger, satan was hurled from heaven into this world of hell.

Anyone who has that anger in him is a satan. If we are angry, we will see anger in others, but if we overcome satan’s anger in ourselves, we will not see it in anyone else.

-- Hazarat Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen

The breath that does not repeat the name of God is a wasted breath.

-- Hazarat Kabir

Whoever remembers Me in his heart, I remember him in My heart, and whoever remembers Me to an assembly, I remember him to an assembly better than his own.

-- Hadith Qudsi

Sacrifice the self, otherwise don't be occupied with the foolish talk of the Sufis.

-- Hazarat Abu Sa'id ibn Abi’l-Khayr

Abu Sa’id was asked, “Who is the spiritual guide who has attained to Truth, and who is the sincere disciple?”

The Sheikh replied, “The spiritual guide who attained to Truth is he in whom at least ten characteristics are found, as proof of his authenticity:

First, he must become a goal, to be able to have a disciple.

Second, he must have traveled the mystic path himself, to be able to show the way.

Third, he must have become refined and educated to be able to be an educator.

Fourth, he must be generous and devoid of self-importance, so that he can sacrifice wealth on behalf of the disciple.

Fifth, he must have no hand in the disciple’s wealth, so that he is not tempted to use it for himself.

Sixth, whenever he can give advice through a sign, he will not use direct expression.

Seventh, whenever he can educate through kindness, he will not use violence and harshness.

Eighth, whatever he orders, he has first accomplished himself.

Ninth, whatever he forbids the disciple, he has abstained from himself.

Tenth, he will not abandon for the world’s sake the disciple he accepts for the sake of God.

If the spiritual guide is like this and is adorned with these character traits, the disciple is bound to be sincere and a good traveler, for what appears in the disciple is the quality of the spiritual guide made manifest in the disciple.”

As for the sincere disciple, the Sheikh has said, “No less than the ten characteristics which I mention must be present in the sincere disciple, if he is to be worthy of discipleship:

First, he must be intelligent enough to understand the spiritual guide’s indications.

Second, he must be obedient in order to carry out the spiritual guide’s command.

Third, he must be sharp of hearing to perceive what the spiritual guide says.

Fourth, he must have an enlightened heart in order to see the spiritual guide’s greatness.

Fifth, he must be truthful, so that whatever he reports, he reports truthfully.

Sixth, he must be true to his word, so that whatever he says, he keeps his promise.

Seventh, he must be generous, so that whatever he has, he is able to give away.

Eight, he must be discreet, so that he can keep a secret.

Ninth, he must be receptive to advice, so that he will accept the guide’s admonition.

Tenth, he must be chivalrous in order to sacrifice his own dear life on the mystic path.

Having these character traits, the disciple will more easily accomplish his journey and more quickly reach the goal set for him on the mystic path by the spiritual guide.”

-- Hazarat Abu Sa’id Ibn Abi’l-Khayr

Sahi said to one of his disciples: “Try to say continuously for one day: ‘Allah! Allah! Allah! And do the same the next day and the day after, until it becomes a habit.” Then he told him to repeat it at night also, until it became so familiar that the disciple repeated it even during his sleep. Then Sahi said, “Do not consciously repeat the Name any more, but let your whole faculties be engrossed in remembering Him!” The disciple did this until he became absorbed in the thought of God. One day, apiece of wood fell on his head and broke it. The drops of blood that dripped to the ground bore the legend, “Allah! Allah! Allah!”

-- Hazarat Sahi

When God wishes to befriend one of His servants, He opens for him the gate of His remembrance. When he experiences the sweetness of remembrance, He opens for him the gate of nearness. Then He raises him into the gatherings of His intimacy. Then He settles him upon the throne of unity. Then He lifts the veil from him and leads him into the abode of unicity and reveals for him the divine splendor and majesty. When his eyes fall upon the divine splendor and majesty, naught of himself remains. There upon His servant is entirely extinguished for a time. After this he comes under God’s exalted protection, free from any pretensions of his self.

-- Hazarat Abu Sa’id Ibn Abi’l-Khayr

I went to see Nuri. I saw him sitting in meditation so motionless that not even one hair moved.
I asked, “From whom did you learn such deep meditation?”

“I learned it from a cat waiting by a mouse hole. The cat was much stiller than I.”

-- Hazarat Al-Shibli

Sometimes He shows Himself in one way
Sometimes in the opposite way – the work of religion is not but bewilderment.

-- Hazarat Rumi

Almighty God admitted me to His presence in 2000 stations, and every station he offered me a kingdom, but I declined it.

God said to me, “Bayezid, what do you desire?”
I replied, “I desire not to desire.”

-- Hazarat Bayezid Bastami

For thirty years I sat watching over my heart. Then for ten years my heart watched over me. Now its twenty years that I know nothing of my heart and my heart knows nothing of me.

-- Hazarat Al Junayd

God placed within the heart the knowledge of Him, and so the heart became lit by God’s Light. By this light He gave the eyes to see. Then God spoke in a prable and said, “Compare to a niche wherein is a lamp.” The lamp of the Divine Light is in the hearts of those who believe in the oneness of God.

-- Hazarat Al-Hakim At-Tirmidhi

God is the Light of the heavens and the earth,
His light may be compared to a niche
Wherein is a lamp
the lamp in a glass
the glass as it were a glittering star
kindled from a Blessed tree
an olive that is neither of the East nor of the West
whose oil would almost shine forth
though no fire touches it.
Light upon light
God guides to His light whom He will.
God speaks in metaphors to me.
God has knowledge of all things.

-- Qur’an 24:35

My earth and My heaven containeth Me not, but the heart of My faithful servant containeth Me.

-- Hadith Qudsi

If He hides His presence from you, it is because He is listening to you.

-- Hazarat Al-Hallaj

Knowledge acquired by external means will never reveal the Truth.

-- Hazarat Al-Ghazzali

In this world there are four hundred trillion, ten thousand spiritual energies given shape by satan’s magic, his trickery, and his treachery. They are found in the earth, air, fire, water and ether of the body. If we can overcome these evil energies within ourselves, then we can see heaven there. And if heaven exists within us, we can embrace everyone equally. We can have compassion for everyone and be loving, tolerant, peaceful, and patient to everyone. We can be filled with contentment, trust in God, and praise of God and receive Allah’s (God’s) grace.

-- Hazarat Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen

He who tastes, knows.

-- Anonymous

Verily there are servants among my servants who love Me, and I love them, and they long for Me, and I long for then and look at Me, and I look at them … And their signs are that they preserve the shade at daytime as compassionately as a herdsman preserves his sheep, and they long for sunset as the bird longs for his nest at dusk, and when the night comes and the shadows become mixed and the beds are spread out and the bedsteads are put up and every lover is alone with his beloved, then they will stand on their feet and put their faces on the ground and will call Me with My word and will flatter Me with My graces, half crying and half weeping, half bewildered and half complaining, sometimes standing, sometimes sitting, sometimes kneeling, sometimes prostrating, and I see what they bear for My sake and I hear what they complain for My love.

-- Hazarat Al-Ghazzali

True knowledge is what is unveiled in hearts.

-- Traditional

God deposited within man knowledge of all things, then prevented him from perceiving what he had deposited within him …. This is one of the divine mysteries which reason denies and considers totally impossible. The nearness of this mystery to those ignorant of it is like God’s nearness to His servant, as mentioned in His words, “We are nearer to him than you, but you do not see” (Qu’ran 56:85), and His words, “We are nearer to him than his jugular vein” (Qu’ran 50:16). In spite of this nearness, the person does not perceive and does not know … no one knows what is within himself until it is unveiled to him instant by instant.

-- Hazarat Ibn ‘Arabi

Man is My secret and I am his secret. The inner knowledge of the spiritual essence is a secret of My secrets. Only I put this into the heart of My good servant, and none may know his state other than Me.

-- Hadith

This is Allah’s (God’s) kingdom, and He is the only One who protects it, conducts its affairs, and rules over it with total justice. Anyone who acts according to that justice and understands Allah in completeness becomes His slave. Such a man owns nothing of his own, and so Allah (God) protects him and looks after all his needs.

-- Hazarat Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen

When the mystic’s spiritual eye is opened, his physical eye is closed; he sees nothing but God.

-- Hazarat Abu Sulayman Ad-Darani

“The best among you are those who when seen remind you of God”

-- Hadith

“Truly, in the remembrance of God hearts find rest.”

-- Surah Al-Mu’minun 23:28

Remember Allah (God), as He has guided you.

-- Surah Al-Baqarah 2:198

Remember Me and I will remember you.

-- Surah Al-Baqarah 2:152

Prophet Muhammad (PBUP) sayings:

The best people are those who are most useful to others.

A perfect Muslim is one from whose tongue and hands mankind is safe.

Backbiting is more grievous than adultery, and God will not forgive the backbiter until the one wronged has forgiven him.
As My servant continues to draw near to Me through voluntary practices,
I become the Hearing with which he or she hears,
The Seeing with which he or she sees,
The hand with which he or she touches,
The feet with which he or she walks.

-- Hadith Qudsi

Whatever is conquered by the sword does not last. The one who picks up the sword will one day die by that same sword. The one who picks up a gun will die by the gun. Whatever one raises in enmity, that very same weapon will cause his destruction. Whatever trick a man learns will bring about his destruction one day.

-- Hazarat Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen

I am so small I can barely be seen.
How can this great love be inside me?

Look at your eyes. They are small,
but they see enormous things.

- Hazarat Rumi

Chapter 9: Pearls

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