pause for a thought ...

[Ghulam Mustufa]

Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu

Two Kinds of People:

"This world is a place of transit, not a place of stay. The people herein are of two categories: One is the man who sold away his self (to passions) and thus ruined it, and the other the man who purchased his self (by control against passions) and freed it. "

Saying of Hadrat Ali ibn Abi Talib (karam'Allahu wajahu) in NB-520 no.133 (a: 131)

[Jamil]

Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu

Also ...


The wisest is he who does not disdain the advice of others.

Moala Ali 'Sher-e-Khuda' Radi Allahu ta'ala anhu Ref : (Maxims of Ali)

[ashrafi chaman]

SUBHANALLAH

[simnani]

Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu

Another great quote maybe a bit ironic ? ....

"Medieval Islam was a religion of remarkable tolerance for its time, allowing Jews and Christians the right to practise their inherited beliefs, and setting an example which was not, unfortunately, copied for many centuries in the West ... Islam is part of our past and our present, in all fields of human endeavour. It has helped to create modern Europe. It is part of our own inheritance, not a thing apart."

Prince Charles (future King Of England ? )

[furqaan]

simnani said:

Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu

Another great quote maybe a bit ironic ? ....

"Medieval Islam was a religion of remarkable tolerance for its time, allowing Jews and Christians the right to practise their inherited beliefs, and setting an example which was not, unfortunately, copied for many centuries in the West ... Islam is part of our past and our present, in all fields of human endeavour. It has helped to create modern Europe. It is part of our own inheritance, not a thing apart."

Prince Charles (future King Of England ? )

A great quote, if only more of our public figures spoke of the great history, tradition, and progress of Islam instead of knocking it all the time. Long live the king.

[nizamuddin]

jamil said:

Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu

Also ...


The wisest is he who does not disdain the advice of others.

Moala Ali 'Sher-e-Khuda' Radi Allahu ta'ala anhu Ref : (Maxims of Ali)

Mashallah ..inspirational. WE can learn so much by taking in this advice.

[Shiraz Ashrafi]

simnani said:

Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu

Another great quote maybe a bit ironic ? ....

"Medieval Islam was a religion of remarkable tolerance for its time, allowing Jews and Christians the right to practise their inherited beliefs, and setting an example which was not, unfortunately, copied for many centuries in the West ... Islam is part of our past and our present, in all fields of human endeavour. It has helped to create modern Europe. It is part of our own inheritance, not a thing apart."

Prince Charles (future King Of England ? )

Prince Charles is very supportive of Islam as was Princess Diana, I know Prince Charles has sat with sufis aswell, including Sheikh Naazim of the Naqshbandi silsila, someone once told me that Sheik Nazim said that only he and Allah (Subhanahu wa Ta'ala) know if Prince Charles is a Muslim or not, (something along those lines, i think I put this too bluntly) but I hope this is true ;D

[Akhtar Hussain]

shirazchughtai said:

simnani said:

Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu

Another great quote maybe a bit ironic ? ....

"Medieval Islam was a religion of remarkable tolerance for its time, allowing Jews and Christians the right to practise their inherited beliefs, and setting an example which was not, unfortunately, copied for many centuries in the West ... Islam is part of our past and our present, in all fields of human endeavour. It has helped to create modern Europe. It is part of our own inheritance, not a thing apart."

Prince Charles (future King Of England ? )

Prince Charles is very supportive of Islam as was Princess Diana, I know Prince Charles has sat with sufis aswell, including Sheikh Naazim of the Naqshbandi silsila, someone once told me that Sheik Nazim said that only he and Allah (Subhanahu wa Ta'ala) know if Prince Charles is a Muslim or not, (something along those lines, i think I put this too bluntly) but I hope this is true ;D

That is shirk brother, unless you got the quote wrong ?

[Fana fi Shaykh]

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem

Work for this life as though you are going to live forever. Work for the Next life as though you will die tomorrow.

(Ali Ibn Talib)

[Fana fi Shaykh]

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem

Allah possesses a drink which is reserved for his intimate friends ( auliya ): when they drink they become intoxicated, when they become intoxicated they become joyful, when they become joyful they become sweet, when they become sweet they begin to melt, when they begin to melt, they become free, when they become free they seek, when they seek they find, when they find they arrive, when they arrive they join, and when they join there is no difference between them and their Beloved.

( Ali Ibn Talib)

[Fana fi Shaykh]

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem

…None grasps Him save He Himself. None knows Him but He Himself… He knows Himself by Himself…Other-than-He cannot grasp Him. His impenetrable veil is His own Oneness. Other-than-He does not cloak Him. His veil is His very existence. He is veiled by His Oneness in a manner that cannot be explained. Other-than-He does not see Him; whether prophet, envoy, or perfected saint or angel near unto Him. His prophet is He Himself. His envoy is He. His message is He. His word is He. He has sent word of His ipseity by Himself, from Himself, to Himself, without intermediary or causality other than Himself…Other-than-He has no existence and so can not bring itself to naught…

( From the Introduction to Sufism - Muhyi-d-Din ibn Arabi in his Epistle on Unity, the Risalat al Ahadiyah )

( Para-phrased according to the fundamental formula of Islam, the 'testimony' known in Arabic as the shahadah ):

[Fana fi Shaykh]

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem

Your soul attains to perfection when it returns to its original sublime state, according to the individual capacity of each person. Thus the soul divests itself of all illusion and refines itself with the subtlety its own secret by means of spiritual exercises aim at purification of the outer and inner from all obscurity and impurity.

( Sayyid Haydar Amuli 1400 )

[Fana fi Shaykh]

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem

"There is no divinity, if it be not The Divinity ( la ilaha ill-Allah )" Which, so to say, 'defines' the Divine Unity. This formula should be translated as here indicated and not, as usually the case, 'there is no God but, Allah', for it is proper to retain in it the appearance of …paradox. Its first part, 'the negation'…. denies in a general manner the same idea of divinity which the second part, the 'affirmation'…affirms by isolation; in other words the formula as a whole postulates an idea-that of divinity---which at the same time denies as a genus. This is the exact opposite of a 'definition', for to define something means first to determine its 'specific difference' and then to bring it to the 'nearest genus', i.e. to general concepts. Now as the shahadah indicates, Divinity is 'defined' precisely by the fact that It's reality eludes ever category… According to this 'testimony; God is distinct from all things and nothing can be compared to Him…Now perfect incomparability requires that nothing can be set face to face with the incomparable and have any relationship whatever with it; this amounts to saying that nothing exists in the face of the Divine Reality so that , in It, all things are annihilated. 'God was and nothing with Him and He is now such as He was.

( hadith qudsi )

[Shiraz Ashrafi]

syedrehanqadri said:

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem

Allah possesses a drink which is reserved for his intimate friends ( auliya ): when they drink they become intoxicated, when they become intoxicated they become joyful, when they become joyful they become sweet, when they become sweet they begin to melt, when they begin to melt, they become free, when they become free they seek, when they seek they find, when they find they arrive, when they arrive they join, and when they join there is no difference between them and their Beloved.

( Ali Ibn Talib)

Subhanallah, Subhanallah, Subhanallah!!!!

Moula Ali has some of the best sayings, EVERYONE should listen to him Radi Allahu anhu, afterall, he is the door of knowledge

[Fana fi Shaykh]

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem

"Travel beyond the confines of this life and see the vastness of His kingdom beyond space. Let your ear listen to what it has not heard before, and your eye see what it has not seen, until it leads you to where you see the One of the world and all the worlds. Express your passion for the One from your heart and soul until you see the Reality with the eye of certainty. There is only One and nothing but Him, He is Alone and there is no God but Him."

( Imam Muhammad Ibn 'Ali Al Baqir )

[Fana fi Shaykh]

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem

Know however that God, in order to manifest Himself by His essence to His essence, has not need of creatures since, with relation to Essence, he is absolutely independent with respect to worlds and even with respect to His own names…On the other hand, when He manifests Himself with His names and His attributes --- which implies the manifestation of the effects --- He needs ( huwa muftaqir ) the creatures…This relation is… necessary in order that the divine Names, Which are only distinguished by their effects, can be distinguished from one another. At the same time, the divine Names, by the one of their "faces" which is turned toward the Essence, are themselves totally autonomous with respect to worlds. In this respect, they are nothing other than the Essence itself and that is why each of them can be qualified and designated by all of the other Names in the same way as the Essence.

( Amir 'Abd al-Kader )

[Fana fi Shaykh]

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem

Love makes forms in separation. But at the time of meeting, the Formless shows His head and says, "I am the root of the root of sobriety and intoxication; the beauty you see in forms is My ( God ) reflection. Now I have removed the veils, I have displayed Beauty without intermediary. Since you have become so interwoven with My reflection, you have found the strength to view the Essence alone."

( Jalaluddin Rumi )

[Fana fi Shaykh]

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem

Source material: The Key to Salvation: A Sufi Manual of Invocation Your Saying: "God is Most Great" does not mean that He is greater than something else, since there is nothing else alongside of Him, so that it could be said that He is greater than it…Rather, the meaning of Allahu Akbar is that He is much too great to be perceived by the senses or for the depths of His Majesty to be reached by reason and logic, and indeed, that He is much too great to be known by an other-than-Him for truly, no one knows God, but God.

( p.119 )

[Fana fi Shaykh]

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem

What do we mean by saying that God is not in heaven? We do not mean that He is not in heaven, but that heaven can not encompass Him. He encompasses heaven. He has an ineffable connection with heaven just as He has an ineffable connection with you. Everything is in His omnipotent hands; everything is a manifestation of Him and subject to His control. So, He is not totally inside them either, that is, they do not encompass Him but He encompasses them totally.

( Jalaluddin Rumi )

[ahmad786]

Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu

…None grasps Him save He Himself. None knows Him but He Himself… He knows Himself by Himself…Other-than-He cannot grasp Him. His impenetrable veil is His own Oneness. Other-than-He does not cloak Him. His veil is His very existence. He is veiled by His Oneness in a manner that cannot be explained. Other-than-He does not see Him; whether prophet, envoy, or perfected saint or angel near unto Him. His prophet is He Himself. His envoy is He. His message is He. His word is He. He has sent word of His ipseity by Himself, from Himself, to Himself, without intermediary or causality other than Himself…Other-than-He has no existence and so can not bring itself to naught…

ALLAH! ALLAH! ALLAH!!!!!!!


Allahu Akbar!!!!