"My creed is LOVE;
Wherever its caravan turns along the way,
That is my belief, My faith."
"Your personal nature seeks its paradise."
"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"
"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"
"How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?"
"I believe in the religion of Love, whatever direction its caravans may take,
for Love is my religion and my faith."
"God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant,
stirs in the animal, and awakens in man."
"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."
"If you find it complicated to answer
someone s question, do not answer it, for his container is already full and
does not have room for the answer"
"I am in love with no other than myself,
and my very separation is my union... I am my beloved and my lover; I
am my knight and my maiden."
"There was a time, when I blamed my companion
if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every
form....Love alone is my religion."
"Oh, Lord, nourish me not with love,
but with the desire for love."
"I follow the Way of Love,
and where Love's caravan takes its path,
there is my religion, my faith."
"You are My sight, so have faith.
You are My Face, so veil yourself"
"Each person is oriented toward a
quest for his personal invisible guide, or . . . he entrusts himself to the collective, magisterial authority as the intermediary
between himself and Revelation."
"My heart can be pasture for deer and a convent
for monks, a temple for idols and a Kaaba for the pilgrims. It is both the tables of
the Torah and the Koran. It professes the religion of Love wherever its caravans are
heading. Love is my law. Love is my faith."
"While you are alive, your worldly self is like
a collector of benefits from Allah's bounties, which come to you from myriads of hands."
"Do not praise your own faith exclusively
so that you disbelieve all the rest. If you do this you will miss much good. Nay,
you will miss the whole truth of the matter. God, the Omniscient and the Omnipresent, cannot
be confined to any one creed, for He says in the Quran, wheresoever ye turn, there is the face
of Allah. Everybody praises what he knows. His God is his own creature, and
in praising it, he praises himself. Which he would not do if he were just,
for his dislike is based on ignorance."
"My heart can take on any form:
A meadow for gazelles,
A cloister for monks,
For the idols, sacred ground,
Ka'ba for the circling pilgrim,
The tables of the Torah,
The scrolls of the Quran.
"When you know yourself, your 'I'ness vanishes and you know that
you and Allah are one and the same."
"Whoever builds his faith exclusively on
demonstrative proofs and deductive arguments, builds a faith on which it is impossible to rely. For he is affected by the negativities of
constant objections. Certainty(al-yaqin) does not derive from the evidences of the mind
but pours out from the depths of the heart."
