Ahmed Abdelrahman

“Make a ritual ablution before each prayer, beginning every action with "In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful." First wash your hands, intending to pull them away from the affairs of this world. Then wash your mouth, remember and reciting God's name, purifying it in order to utter His Name. Wash your nose wishing to inhale the perfumes of the Divine. Wash your face feeling shame, and intending to wipe from it arrogance and hypocrisy. Wash your forearms trusting God to make you do what is good. Wet the top of your head feeling humility and wash your ears (in preparation) to hear the address of your Lord. Wash from your feet the dirt of the world so that you don't stain the sands of Paradise. Then thank and praise the Lord, and send prayers of peace and blessing upon our Master, who brought the canons of Islam and taught them to us.

After you leave the place of your ablution without turning your back to it, perform two cycles of prayer out of hope and thankfulness for His making you clean.

Next, stand in the place where you are going to make your prayers as if between the two hands of your Lord. Imagine, without forms and lines, that you are facing the Ka'bah, and that there is no one else on the face of this earth but you. Bring yourself to express your servanthood physically. Choose the verses you are going to recite, understanding their meanings within you. With the verses that start with "Say..." feel that you are talking to your Lord as He wishes you to do: let every word contain praise. Allow time between the sentences, contemplating what our Master, the Messenger of God, gave us, trying to keep it in your heart. Believing that your destiny is written on your forehead, place it humbly on the floor in prostration. When you finish and give salutations to your right and to your left, keep your eyes on yourself and your connection with your Lord, for you are saluting the One under whose power you are and who is within you...”
― Ibn Arabi

“التجلي المتكرر في الصورة الواحدة لا يعول عليه
جميع ما يرد عليك و أنت تجهل أصله لا تعول عليه
كل حال يدوم زمانين لا يعول عليه
كل حضور لا يتعين لك في كل شيء لا يعول عليه
كل تمكين لا يكون في تلوين لا يعول عليه
كل كلام لا يؤثر في قلب السامع مراد المسمع فهو قول لا كلام .
كل سكر لا يكون عن شرب لا يعول عليه
كل بقاء يكون بعده فناء لا يعول عليه
كل فناء لا يعطي بقاء لا يعول عليه
كل نفس لا تنشأ منه صورة تشاهدها لا يعول عليه
كل عبودية لا يتعين سيدها لا يعول عليها
كل بلاء لا يكون ابتلاء لا يعول عليه
كل معرفة لا تتنوع لا يعول عليها
كل صدق يُسأل عنه لا يعول عليه
كل شوق يسكن باللقاء لا يعول عليه
كل محادثة لا يكون العبد فيها لا يعول عليها
المعرفة إذا لم تتنوع مع الأنفاس لا يعول عليها
كل مشهد لا يريك الكثرة في العين الواحدة لا تعول عليه
كل امتزاج لا يعطيك أمراً لم يكن عندك من قبل وجوده لا يعول عليه
الحكمة إذا لم تكن حاكمة لا يعول عليها
الأدب إذا لم يجمع بين العلم والعمل لا يعول عليه
السماع إذا لم يوجد في الإيقاع غير الإيقاع لا يعول عليه
المكان إذا لم يكن مكانة لا يعول عليه .”
― ابن عربي

“None but God is loved in the existent things. It is He who is manifest within every beloved to the eye of every lover – and there is nothing in the existent realm that is not a lover”
― Ibn 'Arabi

“There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few priveledged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part