“Essentially all religions include decisive truths and mediators and miracles, but the disposition of these elements, the play of their proportions, can vary according to the conditions of the revelation and of the human receptacles of the revelation.”
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“The Powerful, may His majesty be exalted, is not powerless in anything at all. How many were like stone of harder still, and yet the fountains of wisdom gushed from their hearts and flowed on their tongues. This is known. Allah Almighty says: There are some stones from which rivers gush forth, and others which split open and water comes out, and others which crash down from fear of Allah. (2:74)”
― The Daraqawi Way
― The Daraqawi Way
“My whole desire is to burn myself away.”
― Hafiz of Shiraz: Thirty Poems: An Introduction to the Sufi Master
― Hafiz of Shiraz: Thirty Poems: An Introduction to the Sufi Master
“This sea is bound to be stirred up and roused and enraged, so as to cast out of it again on to the dry land the wood, and hay, and all the corruption that was brought down into it by the rivers of the passions. Let us watch nature and we shall find that after a storm at sea there comes a deep calm.”
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“He is One, and number has no place in Him; He is absolute, and dependence is far removed from Him; not that One which reason and understanding can know, not that Absolute which sense and imagination can recognize. He is not multitude, nor paucity;one multiplied by one remains one. In duality is only evil and error; in singleness is never any fault.”
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