Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

The other world is as to this like the east to the west. We cannot approach the one without turning away from the other.

The pleasure and the love of God for His creatures constitute the original state. His pleasure and love are the means by which He has brought His creatures into existence and are the cause of that bringing into existence. He who knows that he possesses neither being nor act rediscovers himself in that original state of pleasure and divine love.

O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.

Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.'