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“Whatever has befallen you was not meant to escape you, and whatever has escaped you was not meant to befall you.”
― Aidh bin Abdullah al-Qarni

“Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God’s essence. As one Sufi master has argued, why spend time reading a love letter (by which he means the Quran) in the presence of the Beloved who wrote it?”
― Reza Aslan, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam

“The Message of Mohammad is not a set of metaphysical phenomena. It is a complete civilization.”
― W.A.R. Gibb

“None of you believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.”
― Prophet Muhammad, The Translation of the Meanings of Sahih Al-Bukhari - Arabic-English