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]