Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct. Let modesty be compassion, good manners fasting, you should be a Muslim the like of this. Let good deeds be your Kaaba and truth be your mentor. Your Kalma be your creed and prayer, God would then vindicate your honour.
Guru NanakI am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.
Guru NanakThou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.
Guru NanakOffspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.
Guru NanakOnly fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don't understand truth nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non vegetarian
Guru NanakWe are born of woman, we are conceived in the womb of woman, we are engaged and married to woman. We make friendship with woman and the lineage continued because of woman. When one woman dies, we take another one, we are bound with the world through woman. Why should we talk ill of her, who gives birth to kings? The woman is born from woman; there is none without her. Only the One True Lord is without woman
Guru NanakEven Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
Guru NanakMake of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl.
Guru NanakBe kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.
Guru NanakThrough True Love, she merges with Him. She who does not know her Husband Lord, the Architect of karma, is deluded by falsehood she herself is false.
Guru NanakFor each and every person, our Lord and Master provides sustenance. Why are you so afraid, O mind? The flamingos fly hundreds of miles, leaving their young ones behind. Who feeds them, and who teaches them to feed themselves? Have you ever thought of this in your mind?
Guru NanakThe word is the Guru, The Guru is the Word, For all nectar is enshrined in the world Blessed is the word which reveal the Lord's name But more is the one who knows by the Guru's grace.
Guru NanakO my heart! Love God as the chatrik loves the rain drops, Who even when fountains are full and the land green, Is not satisfied as long as it cannot get a drop of rain.
Guru NanakThe production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.
Guru NanakThat one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.
Guru NanakGod is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.
Guru NanakFrom woman, man is born; within woman, man is conceived; to woman he is engaged and married. Woman becomes his friend; through woman, the future generations come. When his woman dies, he seeks another woman; to woman he is bound. So why call her bad? From her, kings are born. From woman, woman is born; without woman, there would be no one at all.
Guru NanakAlone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
Guru NanakWhatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean.
Guru NanakOwing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.
Guru NanakSee the brotherhood of all mankind as the highest order of Yogis; conquer your own mind, and conquer the world.
Guru NanakAn adopted son shall never take the family, name and the estate of his natural father, the funeral cake follows the family, name and the estate, the funeral offerings of him who gives ,his son in adoption cease, as far as that son is concerned.
Guru NanakThose who conquer their minds are beings of renunciation and detachment. They are beings of renunciation and detachment they are lovingly focused on the True One, they realize and understand themselves.
Guru NanakI bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.
Guru NanakWhatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.
Guru NanakSing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.
Guru NanakFar from wife and son am 1, far from land and wealth and other notions of that kind. I am the Witness, the Eternal, the Inner Self.
Guru NanakBuild the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides to stop you; this is how comfortable your path shall be.
Guru NanakLet him avoid ,the acquisition of wealth and ,the gratification of his desires, if they are opposed to the sacred law, and even lawful acts which may cause pain in the future or are offensive to men.
Guru NanakDo not wish evil for others. Do not speak ill of others. Do not obstruct anyones activities.
Guru NanakThe highest religion is to rise to universal brother hood; aye to consider all creatures your equals.
Guru NanakThrough shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.
Guru NanakBe the wisdom your support. Be the compassion your guide and listen to the Divine Music that beats in every heart.
Guru NanakEven kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth - these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God.
Guru NanakLet no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.
Guru NanakThere is but One God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none, he is without hate, He never dies, He is beyond the cycle of births and death, He is self illuminated, He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning, He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True, He is also True now.
Guru Nanak