Quote Archive

“Whoever you embrace will have everlasting life.  Those drawn to your thought will dwell in happy fields.”

Khwaju Kirmani, in David Fideler and Sabrineh Fideler, trans., Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition (Novato, CA: New World Library, 2006), 12

“Being became the mirror of the Real and the Real appeared from it. With the eye of the spirit I gaze at the spirit in the mirror.”

Muhammad Taqi Mir, Shar-i-hal wa athar wa ash’ar-i shaykh Ruzbihan-I Baqli-yi Fasa’i-yi Shiraz (Shiraz: Intisharat-I Danishgah-I Pahlawi, 1975), 88; quoted in Murata, 2017, 96–97.

“Break the code of this line and know beyond doubt that:  All is nothing, nothing, All is He, all is He.”

Fakhruddin ‘Irāqī,  Divine Flashes.  Translated by William C. Chittick and Peter Lamborn Wilson, (New York:  Paulist Press, 1982), intro. 98.

“All love for someone else is but a whiff of Thy perfume: none else can be loved.”

Fakhruddin ‘Irāqī, Divine Flashes.  Translated by William C. Chittick and Peter Lamborn Wilson, (New York:  Paulist Press, 1982), 85.

“Do not be in haste! Follow in the footsteps of the Beloved of God and persevere in the worship of God. He will open unto you the gates to that which you seek!”

“The purpose of life and creation was to discover unity with the beloved.”

Nasr, H. and Leaman, O, Ed’s. History of Islamic Philosophy. Routledge: London, 1996. Chapter 27, Dabashi, Hamid, 374-433.

“Love guides the practitioner to unity (tawhid), then all there is, is God.”

Schimmel, A. Mystical Dimensions of Islam, The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1975, 294.

“Being became the mirror of the Real and the Real appeared from it.  With the eye of the spirit, I gaze at the spirit in the mirror.”

Muhammad Taqi Mir, Shar-i-hal wa athar wa ash’ar-i shaykh Ruzbihan-I Baqli-yi Fasa’i-yi Shiraz (Shiraz: Intisharat-I Danishgah-I Pahlawi, 1975), 88; quoted in Murata, 2017, 96–97.

“Love guides the practitioner to unity (tawhid), then all there is, is God.”

Schimmel, Annemarie. Mystical Dimensions of Islam, The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1975, 294.

“On a wondrous day the Holy Spirit blew it into my heart in a single instant, though its writing took many months due to the interruptions of journeys.”

Suhrawardi, The Philosophy of Illumination: A New Critical Edition of the Text of Hikmat al-ishraq, trans. John Walbridge and Hossein Ziai (Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1999), 162.