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Arise, we have eternity for sleeping!’ OMAR KHAYYAM

A drop of water fell into the sea . A speck of dust came floating down to earth . What signifies your passage through this world? A tiny gnat appears – and disappears .

Did you not call me to ask my opinion? Well I shall not beat around the bush: leave this room, abandon this palace, do not look back, do not say goodbye, do not even collect your belongings. Come, give me your hand and let us go home.

‘When unhappiness overwhelms you, when you end up wishing for an eternal night to fall on the world, think of the greenery which springs up after the rain, think of the awakening of a child.’

Both Paradise and Hell are in you
OMAR KHAYYAM

'but time is rushing us into playing out our future in a few confused minutes.'

On an old road, in the autumn wind, a scrawny horse keeps trudging
The sun, slanting, to the west, setting –
Heart-torn, lovelorn, the wanderer, to the verge of the sky a-roaming.

Deep down inside, the Sahara Desert had been my dream lover for so
long. I looked around at the boundless sand across which the wind wailed,
the sky high above, the landscape majestic and calm. It was dusk. The
setting sun stained the desert the red of fresh blood, a sorrowful beauty. The
temperature felt like early winter. I’d expected a scorching sun, but instead
found a swathe of poetic desolation

For the past few days, I’ve had one thought in my mind that I can’t drive
away, something that I’ve been pondering and pondering and pondering.
‘I’ve been thinking that maybe, just maybe, I have a subconscious
impulse to end my own life. So that’s why I became so ill,’ I say softly.

When love is accompanied with rejecting the things that the loved one hates, then it is complete love.

José had one great virtue. No matter what Sanmao did, even if others considered it crazy, he would see it simply as par for the course.

FOREWORD
Across the collection, Sanmao the chimerical protagonist-narrator
presents herself as trendsetter and rule-breaker, cool girl and mystic,
pensive romantic and comic heroine, globetrotter and housewife. She’s a
singular polyglot who refuses to be confined to the limitations of a single
category.

Nekhludoff sat staring at the lamp and his heart stood still

What a pity that this is so incoherent,” he thought, “yet one feels that there is something good in it.” (Nekhludoff reading the Testament)

To understand it, to understand the whole of the Master’s will is not in my power. But to do His will, that is written down in my conscience, is in my power; that I know for certain. And when I am fulfilling it I have sureness and peace.

More than once in Nekhludoff’s life there had been what he called a “cleansing of the soul.” By “cleansing of the soul” he meant a state of mind in which, after a long period of sluggish inner life, a total cessation of its activity, he began to clear out all the rubbish that had accumulated in his soul, and was the cause of the cessation of the true life. His soul needed cleansing as a watch does.

He now felt the same loathing and pity and vexation as when, out shooting, he was obliged to kill a wounded bird. The wounded bird struggles in the game bag. One is disgusted and yet feels pity, and one is in a hurry to kill the bird and forget it.

If one happens upon the sweetness of imän in his heart from believing in Alläh and His oneness, but then he replaces that with what he desires, then he is making his desires his god and he is making the Shaytan and his offspring his allies against Allāh.

What a wretched exchange for the zălimun (oppres- sors)!
This is an alteration of the religion and a change of the fitrah (natural disposition)

disobedience lessens love. This is the meaning of ash-Shibli 's response when he was asked about love-he recited the following poetry:

You disobey the Lord and you claim you love Him; This is inconceivable, a repugnant analogy. If you truly loved Him, you would obey Him; Indeed, a person is obedient to the one they love.

اللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلْنِي أَحِبُّكَ، وَأُحِبُّ مَلَائِكَتَكَ، وَأَنْيَاءَكَ وَعِبِادَكَ الصَّالِحِينَ اللَّهُمَّ حَبِّنِي إِلَيْكَ وَ إِلَى مَلائِكَتِكَ وَأَنْبِيَائِكَ، وَعِبَادِكَ الصَّالِحِينَ.

O Alläh, make me love You, Your angels, Your prophets, and Your righteous slaves. O Alläh, make me beloved to You, Your angels, Your prophets, and Your righteous slaves.

Love of the Messenger is from the love for Allah, and likewise, all love that is felt for Allāh's sake is love for Allāh
There are three qualities, whoever has them will taste the sweetness of imän: to love Allāh and His Messenger more than anyone else; to love a person only for the sake of Allah; and to hate to return to disbelief after Allāh has saved him from it, as much as he would hate to be thrown into the Fire

How many people are distracted from the destination by the journey?

So every movement and every action in the world is based on love and desire, and every love or desire that is not based on the love for Allah and the desire to see His Face is futile and corrupt.

The possessor of taqwa is the antithesis of the possessor of (corrupt) desires. Allāh, the Most High, said:
"But as for him who feared standing before his Lord, and restrained himself from impure evil desires and lusts-then indeed, Paradise will be his abode."

Reciting the Qur'an is better than remembrance, and remembrance is better than supplication. This is if each one is viewed by itself. So reciting generally is better than doing remembrance generally, except when the servant is faced with something which makes remembrance or invocation more beneficial to him than reciting the Qur'an.

Preoccupying with remembrance keeps a person away from vain talk (kalam al-batil), be it back-biting (ghiba), spreading tales (namima), nonsensical chatter (lughn), praising (madh) or blame (dhamm) and criticizing

As it was said: When we are sick, we treat ourselves with Your remembrance. At times when we leave Your remembrance, we relapse into sickness.

Margarita!