No Nationalism

He is not one of us who calls for nationalism, who fights for nationalism or who dies for nationalism.

 Prophet Muhammad (S)

Prayer

Satisfaction

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I’ve gone and come back, I’ll find it at home. 

[Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi]

Devilish Citations

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

William Shakespeare
Merchant of Venice

Hate can lead to Conversion

As a general proposition it can be stated that when a man possessing a religious nature hates and persecutes a religion, he is, circumstances permitting, on the verge of being converted to it.

[Frithjof Schuon]

What leads to unbelief?

So it is that religion, according to the measure in which it denies metaphysical and initiatory realities and becomes crystallized in a literalistic dogmatism, inevitably engenders unbelief.

[Frithjof Schuon]

Dreading Dawn

I whirl with my Lover
And talk to my Heart:
O Lord
May the key to the dawn
Be lost tonight.
[Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi]

The Highest Rank

The highest rank (maqam) is for who is able to leave what is forbidden to them and escape from what is permitted to them.

 

[Mawlana Shaykh Nazim Adil Al-Haqqani]