Extinction is the beginning of the path: it is traveling to God Most High. Guidance comes afterwards. What I mean by guidance is the guidance of God, as described by the Friend of God, Abraham: "Lo! I am going unto my Lord Who will guide me."

If you make intense supplication and the timing of the answer is delayed, do not despair of it. His reply to you is guaranteed; but in the way He chooses, not the way you choose, and at the moment He desires, not the moment you desire.

It may well be that you are in a bad state, but to keep company with someone worse than you would allow to see good in yourself.

Invoking removes darkness and brings forth radiant lights.

Paraphrased: The way of al-Junayd includes among other things abstaining constantly from resisting God Most High in whatever happens to one, whether good or bad. . . .

When Allah inspires your tongue to ask, know that He wants to give

Nothing is difficult, if you seek it through your Lord; nothing is easy, if you seek it through your self.