Connections
"Tasawwuf (Sufism) means that Allah causes you to die to your self and gives you life in Him."
Al Junayd
in GF Haddad and Dr. Alan Godlas
Imam Junayd ibn Muhammad Abu al-Qasim al-Khazzaz al-Baghdadi (d. 297 AH/ 909-910... https://t.co/CGJhdWrdaT
"There were not two; beholder was one with beheld; it was not a vision compassed but a unity apprehended. The man formed by this mingling with the Supreme must -- if he only remember — carry its image impressed upon him: he... https://t.co/Ps1VCVpZjv
"Keep God in remembrance till self is forgotten,
That you may be lost in the Called without distraction of caller and called."
Rumi
Divani Shamsi Tabriz, 4
in F. Hadland Davis
The Persian Mystics: Jalaluddin Rumi
London: John Murray, 1912, p. 45 https://t.co/LG0RBcRVtK
"You alone exist, I do not, O Beloved!"
Repeating the name of the Beloved
I have become the Beloved myself.
Whom shall I call the Beloved now?"
Bulleh Shah
in J.R. Puri and T.R. Shangari
The Life of Bulleh Shah https://t.co/OxVE88UnHz
"This is true religion; to cleanse oneself with pure thoughts, pure words and pure deeds."
Zoroaster
Zend Avesta
in God's Big Instruction Book
Rockport, MA: Oneworld, 1996, p. 41