Witnessing Light

the happiness of the drop is to die in the river . by Imam Ghazali

Religion is love and love is religion. by Imam al- Baqir.

Zikr . .. Remembrance of Lord! . .. that in which hearts find true satisfaction.

Hu's He THEN? He Who (Hu) loves you And has scent you to a copious garden A garden within Where roses Flower kings and Prostrating flo...

take night as your camel; with it you shall attain your hope.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes” (Chinese proverb)

When your legs are tired, walk with your heart

The scars you can't see are the hardest to heal - (Astrid Alauda)

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? -(Maurice Freehill)

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? - buddha

If I were to be told to pack up today and leave this world, I will not have many regrets. I'd just make a silent wish that someone else ...

the true love to hurt the enemy (shaitan, satan) is to be occupied with the love of friend; on the other hand, if you engage in war with the...

Practicing honor is one's ability to withhold oneself from behaving in any way that harms another, that takes from another. only i can t...

This road-not-taken is pretty damn strange. There are no milestones, and no indications. The best hope is that it leads to a destination no ...

I have this moment to forget the past, and be not anxious about the future. From this world to another I go this second! Think. Think!

With great pain comes great realization.

Nothing around me had changed. Except my state of mind.

Power is when you have something that someone else wants from you, but cannot take unless you give.

lie puts a human in another world intentionally or knowingly..!!

ugliness is the form of beauty, for those who see.

i have decided that time has come in my life where i start living out my knowledge. After all, wise men such as Hazart Ali(r.a) say that kno...

Honestly, I'm dead. I feel greatly torn between two worlds. The Old and The New. I am split in to two and two. Oh dear life!

O my love, do not forget your beloved, come back from your life in the wilderness The birds have flown home, why do you not do the same? Lov...

I pray today that I don't lose heart in staying alive. Amen!

there are matters that do not even need our actions. they appear to us, and then they dissolve. We do nothing more than observe them. let th...

day draw near another one, do what you can for saving yourself ..!!

If the shaykh says to you "O my son take this cup and empty the ocean." What is your job? To take the cup and empty the ocean. Tha...

An unspeakable restlessness has gripped me. And within it, the slightest shimmers of comfort. I feel as though I am walking alone in a wilde...

Listen to your heart EXACTLY at the moment when it speaks! :) Do exactly as it says! You missed again, man! How unlearned! You did not pay h...

there are matters that do not even need our actions. they appear to us, and then they dissolve. we do nothing more than observe them. Let th...

there is no mastery of the future. there is no way that the past can be erased such that it is not a living part of one's self. One come...

remember, real magic is hidden, hidden in the quiet moments...!!

Iqbal says "Tukhum-e-Iqbal az Rumi ast" (that is, Iqbal is an offshoot of Rumi's [ideology]). but Rumi himself says, Why are ...

the best first thing a human mind can do is to observe, to follow closely by wonder - and then question. In questions are theiranswers, and ...

I am so madly uncertain, and afraid. But continue to love I do in the most uncertain of times. Fearing the process is foolish of me, eh, bec...

I was put in the midst of this chaotic construction, and as ever, my task is to remember the origin. Look at this word again! Re-member: Re:...

I am like a palace under construction that is opening its eyes, becoming gradually conscious... and is astounded and awed at once to observe...

Book 9, Number 9.4.18: Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Salim ibn Abdullah that Abdullah ibn Umar used to say, "I pr...

Do not keep the company of anyone whose state does not awaken yours, or words direct you to Allah. You might be doing badly, and be shown yo...

A thief entered the house of a Sufi and found nothing there to steal. As he was leaving, the dervish, sensing his disappoitment, threw him t...

I asked a child who was carrying a lighted candle, "Where does this light come from?" The child blew out the candle and asked me, ...

O wondrous ecstatic eyes, O wondrous long locks, O wondrous wine worshipper, O wondrous mischievous sweetheart. As he draws the sword, I bo...

I am amazed at he who knows death is certain, yet he laughs I am amazed at he who knows that the Fire is true, yet he rejoices I am amazed a...

Knowledge for Knowledge From Jaabir (radiyAllâhu 'anhu) who said that Allâh's Rasul Nabi E Kareem Hazrat Mohammed (salAllâhu 'al...

listen. listen closely. what did I tell you? You must see the flaw: you are asserting the principles that you are not living. the key is to ...

the light at the end of the tunnel is fading. the faster I run, the farther it becomes. Soon everything is swallowed by an eerie darkness. ...

Lord, everything is you, both good and bad, and the marvel is , no evil comes from you..!!

those who love you ( Lord ) , weep in their laughter ; those who know you , laugh in their weeping ..

if you are really a man of the path, abstain awhile from looking at yourself ..!

let others be heedless, you be prudent , and hold your tongue along this path ( Journey )

I learned several things at once: Decisions are not to be based on our relationships with others, but on our relationship with Being. Anger ...

Do not become. BE! Do not try. DO!

Finally, finally, finally, I overcame a great reluctance - and did something I ought to have done a long time ago. Wow. I am feeling absolu...

Allah is the Protecting Friend of those who believe. He brings them out of the darknesses into the light. (Quran Surah al-Baqara 2:257)

Lost in myself I reappeared I know not where a drop that rose from the sea and fell and dissolved again; a shadow that stretched itself o...

cold dark nites, stars twinklin in the dark sheet.. the dim falme of the candle, its existance in this cold wind.. where has all my restlesn...

"...And Allah is not unaware of what you do." (Surah Al-Baqarah, Chapter 2, Ayah 74)

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First, to let go of life. In the end, to take a ste...

My self revolted against me, and I thought I was either going to die, or end my own life. Either way, someone I deeply care about would not ...

Sooner or Later, we all have to wake up ...

O Allah! Bestow complete blessings and perfect peace on Sayyidina Muhammad and for his sake may all our difficulties be removed, all calamit...

Don’t place too much emphasis on what you see with these eyes

Qul lan yuseebana illa ma katab Allahu lana huwa mawlana wal Allahi fal ya tawakkal almuminoona. Say, "Never will we be struck except ...

“By the soul and the proportion and order given to it, and its inspiration as to its wrong and its right; Truly he succeeds who purifies it,...

Our hearts are drunk with a beauty, our eyes could never see!!

"Our Lord! Let not our hearts deviate (from the truth) after You have guided us, and grant us mercy from You. Truly, You are the Bestow...

ربِّ زِدْنِي عِلْماً Rabbi Zidni 'ilma 'My Lord! Increase me in knowledge' (20:114)

Oh my dear God! I just had a realization - for a certain billionth time!

Secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

When you enter the Room of Now, do close the Door of Past behind you. If not, you will be consumed, and the Corridors of Future will be anni...

When the first man was complete he was asked to look over his right shoulder. There were three lights. He asked the first light its name and...

For anyone whose soul is brushed in the slightest with the poetry of Rumi, love and poetry become inseparable after that beautiful accident....

I appeal to the goodness in you to let goodness prevail. You must acknowledge the progress you have made on your path - do not allow it to b...

I wish to be liberated from non-listeners.

"Sawaal ban to sahee, mein teray jawaab mein hoon!" . . .. "Well, go on, become a question! I am awaiting to be the answer!...

Never sell your soul to the Devil!

Body aches and pains, especially in the neck, shoulder and back Feeling of deep inner sadness for no apparent reason Crying for no apparent ...

Âyam be sar-e-kûye to pûyân pûyân Rukhsâr be âb-e-dîde shûyân shûyân Bîchâre rah-e wasl-e to jûyân jûyân Jân mîdeham o nâm-e to gûyân gûyân ...

What is the root of all conflict? Love? Money? Desire...? No! The root of all conflict is "me." The root of all conflict and e...

"You may attempt to do 100 things in this world, only Love will give you release from the bondage of yourself." - Jami (Sufi) If I...

The point is to remind us that we are free. And we are truly free when we are free of the entity that truly enslaves us: a sleeping mind

Imam al-Qastalani narrates in his Mawahib Ladunniyyah that when Nabi Muhammad( s.a.w.) died, his daughter, Sayyidah Fatimah (r.a.) took sand...

Ay dust hejaab-e to kasi nist to'i Andar rah-e to khaar o khasi nist to'i Goftam keh be ma'shuq rasam yaa narasam Az to bar ma...

Nothing left to hide, not anymore, so empty tonight is my heart's core; My sweetest dream a nightmare has become, I see no hope for the...

The following quotations of the scholars of Shariah regarding the precedence of the knowledge and science of Tasawwuf (Purification of the S...

Come and rest in my lap my child, No fear, no sadness here resides… This is and end much waited, No more tears for these eyes… Let me sing...

I'm not a loner. I just like to be alone when I am sad, and I am sad all the time.

the tearful eye, the noisy spirit are not enough, the accusation of hidden love is not enough, lets go today in the bazaar in chains, let...

"A woman's heart should be so lost in God, that a man must seek Him in order to find her" -anon.

I love... Waking up to your name Hearing your voice Feeling your body against mine Sensing your quiet demeanor Seeing your beautiful eyes ...

Sometimes in the night, I feel so strange, Nothing seems right I feel afraid, So I turn on all the lights I feel alone, And I stare with tr...

Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual." — Imam Al Ghazal...

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star. - Confucius

Could one not imagine oneself in a state which compares to being awake, just as wakefulness compares to being asleep? Being awake would be l...

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. - Confucius

I slip in and out of the Sea at night with this Amazed soul I have. I am like a magnificent, magic ocean turtle Who sets aside his vast win...

Burning, burning, I drift and tread. Love spattered my body with blood. I'm not in my senses nor mad, Come, see what love has done to me...

When it seems That I will fall And everything Feels so wrong When I’m just Too weak within Lord your love Makes me strong..

Hide me as a secret that will never shine on lips like my words.

I envy the sand that met his feet I’m jealous of honey he tasted sweet Of birds that hovered above his head Of spiders who spun their sacred...

Last night I lost my grip on reality and welcomed insanity. Love saw me and said, I showed up. Wipe your tears and be silent. I said, O Love...

Love’s fire, for a lifetime, burned my heart and soul until the Beloved taught me the way of the lover. Love’s jealousy gave me no chance t...