Mohammad Nurunnabi

“هه‌موو كه‌سێك په‌نجه‌ره‌یه‌كی هه‌یه‌، چ بۆ سه‌یركردن چ بۆ خۆپیشاندان، لێیه‌وه‌ ده‌ڕوانێته‌ كۆمه‌ڵ، ئه‌و په‌نجه‌ره‌یه‌ش پێی ده‌ووترێت (پله‌ و پایه‌) جا ئه‌گه‌ر ئه‌و په‌نجه‌ره‌یه‌ له‌ باڵای نرخ و به‌های خۆی به‌رزتر بوو ئه‌وا به‌ (ته‌كه‌بور) باڵای نرخ و به‌های خۆی درێژ ده‌كات تاكو له‌م په‌نجه‌ره‌یه‌وه‌ ده‌ربكه‌وێت. به‌ڵام ئه‌گه‌ر له‌ باڵای هیممه‌تی ئه‌و نزمتر بوو ئه‌وا به‌ (ته‌وزرع) خۆی نزم ده‌كاته‌وه‌ و داده‌نه‌وێت و له‌و ئاسته‌دا ده‌بینێت و ده‌شبینرێت، پێوه‌ره‌ی مه‌زنایه‌تی له‌ مرۆڤی كاملدا ته‌وازوعه‌، به‌ڵام كه‌سانی بووده‌ڵه‌ و ناته‌واو پێوه‌ری بچوكیان ته‌كه‌بوره‌. ـ”
― Said Nursî, The Words 1

“The Prophet once said to his Companions, “Do you want to see a man of Paradise?” A man then passed by, and the Prophet said, “That man is of the people of Paradise.” One of Companion of the Prophet wanted to find out what it was about this man that earned him such a commendation from the Messenger of God , so he decided to spend some time with this man and observe him closely. He noticed that this man did not perform the night prayer vigil (tahajjud) or do anything extraordinary. He appeared to be an average man of Medina. The Companion finally told the man what the Prophet had said about him and asked if he did anything special. The man replied, “The only thing that I can think of, other than what everybody else does, is that I make sure that I never sleep with any rancor in my heart towards another.” That was his secret.”
― Hamza Yusuf, Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart

“THE ONE THING YOU MUST DO

There is one thing in this world you must never forget to do. If you forget everything else and not this, there's nothing to worry about, but if you remember everything else and forget this, then you will have done nothing in your life.

It's as if a king has sent you to some country to do a task, and you perform a hundred other services, but not the one he sent you to do. So human being come to this world to do particular work. That work is the purpose, and each is specific to the person. If you don't do it, it's as though a priceless Indian sword were used to slice rotten meat. It's a golden bowl being used to cook turnips, when one filing from the bowl could buy a hundred suitable pots. It's like a knife of the finest tempering nailed into a wall to hang things on.

You say, "But look, I'm using the dagger. It's not lying idle." Do you hear how ludicrous that sounds? For a penny an iron nail could be bought to serve for that. You say, "But I spend my energies on lofty enterprises. I study jurisprudence and philosophy and logic and astronomy and medicine and the rest." But consider why you do those things. They are all branches of yourself.

Remember the deep root of your being, the presence of your lord. Give yourself to the one who already owns your breath and your moments. If you don't, you will be like the man who takes a precious dagger and hammers it into his kitchen wall for a peg to hold his dipper gourd. You'll be wasting valuable keenness and forgetting your dignity and purpose.”
― Rumi, The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems – Coleman Barks's Sublime Renderings of the 13th-Century Sufi Mystic's Insights into Divine Love and the Human Heart

“None of you has achieved faith until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself.”
― Hamza Yusuf, Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart