Ahmad Mustafa

“كلنا قد تاب يوما

ثم ألفى نفسه

قد تاب عما تاب”
― مظفر النواب, مظفر النواب: الأعمال الشعرية الكاملة

“My friend, the Sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.”
― Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, The Pocket Rumi [Paperback] JALALUDDIN RUMI, MEVLANA

“There are two intellects! One is acquired from teachers and books, from repetition and sciences, granting a sense of superiority yet the effort to sustain it becomes a great burden. It ends just as the water supply coming from outside a house stops once the source has dried up. The other intellect is God's gift. With a fountainhead in the heart of Spirit the water of knowledge bubbling from within can never become stagnant or old. Seek that fountain within yourself!”
― Rumi, Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“Death is a certainty, an inevitable realization, the only thing that we know will befall us. There are no exceptions, no surprises: all paths lead to it. Everything we do is a preparation for it, a preparation that we begin at birth, whimpering with our foreheads against the ground. We never move farther away from death, only closer. But if it is a certainty, then why are we surprised when it comes? If this life is a short passage that lasts only an hour or a day, then why do we fight to prolong it one more day or hour? Worldly life is treacherous, eternity is better.3”
― Meša Selimović, Death and the Dervish