Ibn Ata Allah Quotes - Page 2

• He whose wealth or children distract him from remembering God is lost; but the one who remembers God experiences delights sweeter than the pleasure of food and drink.

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  Children, Cooking, Remembering God

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• One of the signs of relying on deeds is loss of hope when a misstep occurs.

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  Wisdom, Islamic, Loss

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• I know of nothing more useful to you than four matters: surrender to Allah, to humbly entreat Him, to think the best of Him, and to perpetually renew your repentance to Him, even if you should repeat as in seventy times in a day.

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  Wisdom, Islamic, Thinking

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• I seek refuge in Thee from every hope which would distract me.

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  Hope, Thee, Refuge

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• Let your invocation be the all-embracing Name, which is Allah, Allah, Allah, or if you so wish, Huwa, Huwa, Huwa; and do not violate this remembrance. Be careful lest your tongue pronounce it while other-than-He is in your heart. Let your heart be the one who utters, and your ear the one who is attentive to this invocation until the 'speaker' emanates from your Self (sirr). When you feel the emergence of the Speaker within you through the invocation, do not abandon the spiritual condition wherein you find yourself.

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  Spiritual, Heart, Names

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• It may well be that you are in a bad state, but to keep company with someone worse than you would allow to see good in yourself.

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  Wisdom, Islamic, May

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• Cuando la invocación desciende al corazón, si hay oscuridad en él, la ilumina; y si ya hay luz, la invocación aumenta la luz y la intensifica.

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  Heart, Light, Darkness Within

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• Invoking brings the heart closer to the hereafter and keeps the world away from the heart, even though the world is around it. Invoking warns the heedless heart to abandon its pleasures and deceptions.

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  Heart, Deception, World

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• Encompass with your mercy and compassion all animals and creatures. Do not say, "this is inanimate and has no awareness." Indeed, it does; it is you yourself who have no awareness! So let existence be as it is, and be merciful towards it with the mercifulness of the Creator in the midst of His creation.

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  Animal, Compassion, Doe

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• If you do not think well of Him because His qualities are beautiful then think well of Him because of the way He treats you.

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  Beautiful, Wisdom, Islamic

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• God Most High has said, "Is the reward of virtue aught save virtue?" . . . Know, O man, that the covenant of servanthood is incumbent upon you, and that the covenant of Lordship is incumbent upon His magnanimity, as He Most High has said, ". . . and fulfill your covenant, I shall fulfill My covenant."

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  Men, Covenant, Rewards

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• The covenant of your servanthood is that you be a servant to God, not to someone else, and that you know that everything except God is a servant to God, as He Most High has said, "There is none in the heaven and the earth but cometh unto the Compassionate as a servant."

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  Compassion, Heaven, Earth

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• Whosoever is determined to seek guidance and follow a path of right conduct must search for a shaykh from amongst those who have realization, one who follows a path methodically, who has abandoned his passions, and who has firmly established his feet in the service of his Lord.

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  Passion, Feet, Realization

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• . . . persist in that invocation until the unity of the world is subsumed for you in a single sphere, so that with the eye of your heart you will see naught in the two worlds save the One.

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  Eye, Heart, Two Worlds

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• Parafraseado: El camino de al-Junayd incluye entre otras cosas abstenerse constantemente de resistirse a Dios Altísimo en lo que a uno le suceda, sea bueno o malo. . . .

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  Als, Way, Abstaining

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• When the heart becomes empty, the mimbar of the Divine Oneness is placed therein and the sultan of gnosis sits upon it.

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  Heart, Oneness, Gnosis

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• Extinction is the beginning of the path: it is traveling to God Most High. Guidance comes afterwards. What I mean by guidance is the guidance of God, as described by the Friend of God, Abraham: "Lo! I am going unto my Lord Who will guide me."

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  Friendship, Mean, Extinction

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• Invocar las letras del Nombre de Dios sin presencia de mente es invocación de la lengua; invocar con presencia de mente es invocación del corazón; e invocar con ausencia de autoconciencia debido a la absorción en el Invocado es la invocación del Ser - ¡esta es la invocación oculta!

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  Heart, Names, Presence Of Mind

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• Allah was when there was nothing else than Him, and His Throne was upon the water, and He wrote in the Reminder (al-dhikr) all things, and He created the heavens and the earth.

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  Dhikr, Water, Heaven

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• It is impossible that this gnosis resulting in the heart should be achieved by man for any other purpose than to obey God, love Him, and worship Him. This gnosis should be sought for the sake of God, not for any other reason whatsoever, unlike the remaining external acts of devotion, which can be performed for other worldly interests, such as hypocrisy, praise, and commendation.

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  Heart, Men, Gnosis

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• Sabed que la ciencia del desvelamiento no tiene fin, pues consiste en el viaje del intelecto por las estaciones de la Majestad, la Belleza, la Sublimidad, la Grandeza y la Santidad. . . . Aquel a quien se revelan los misterios de La ilaha illa'llah se acerca a Dios, y su adoración a Dios se vuelve sincera. No se dirige a nadie más que a Él, ni tiene esperanza o temor más que a Él, ni ve el mal o el beneficio más que como provenientes de Él. Abandona a quien no es Él y se libra del asociacionismo interior y exterior (shirk).

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  Fear, Journey, Doe

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• The reality of the invocation is when the Invoked takes possession of the heart, and He is One. Separation and multiplicity exist before that for as long as the invoker is in the station of invoking with the tongue or with the heart.

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  Heart, Reality, Long

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• The gnosis of God is intermediate between immoderation, which is ascribing human characteristics to God, and negligence, which is denying any attributes to God. . . The Truth lies in the balance between the two extremes.

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  Lying, Two, Gnosis

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