When you know yourself, your 'I'ness vanishes and you know that you and Allah are one and the same.

When you know yourself, your 'I'ness vanishes and you know that you and Allah are one and the same.

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

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

None but God is loved in the exist- ent things. It is He who is manifest within every beloved to the eye of every lover – and there is nothing in the existent realm that is not a lover

Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you - indeed, the knowledge of reality would elude you. Be in yourself a matter for all forms of belief, for God is too vast and tremendous to be restricted to one belief rather than another.

The ignorant one does not see his ignorance as he basks in its darkness; nor does the knowledgeable one see his own knowledge, for he basks in its light