Ibn Ata Allah Quotes

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• If you are aware of your humility, then you are arrogant.
• If you do not think well of Him because His qualities are beautiful then think well of Him because of the way He treats you.
• I know of nothing more useful to you than four matters: surrender to Allah, to humbly entreat Him, to think the best of Him, and…
• Actions are but lifeless forms whose soul is the secret of sincerity in them
• Nothing is difficult, if you seek it through your Lord; nothing is easy, if you seek it through your self.
• People praise you for what they suppose is in you; but you must blame your soul for what you know is in it.
• If He opens a door for you, thereby making Himself known, pay no heed if your do not measure up to this. For, in truth,…
• The signs of the soundness of the servant's love for his Lord are three: absence of self-willing; pleasure in every event which takes place through…
• When the invocation descends into the heart, if there is darkness within, it illuminates it; and if there is already light, the invocation increases the…
• Let your invocation be the all-embracing Name, which is Allah, Allah, Allah, or if you so wish, Huwa, Huwa, Huwa; and do not violate this…
• The reality of the invocation is when the Invoked takes possession of the heart, and He is One. Separation and multiplicity exist before that for…
• . . . persist in that invocation until the unity of the world is subsumed for you in a single sphere, so that with the…
• Invoking the letters of God's Name without presence of mind is invocation of the tongue; invoking with presence of mind is invocation of the heart;…
• If a tablet is not wiped clean of it's figures, nothing can be written upon it. A single heart cannot serve as the place for…
• Invoking brings the heart closer to the hereafter and keeps the world away from the heart, even though the world is around it. Invoking warns…
• When the heart becomes empty, the mimbar of the Divine Oneness is placed therein and the sultan of gnosis sits upon it.
• It is impossible that this gnosis resulting in the heart should be achieved by man for any other purpose than to obey God, love Him,…
• Know that the science of unveiling has no end to it, for it consists in the journey of the intellect in the stations of Majesty,…
• The gnosis of God is intermediate between immoderation, which is ascribing human characteristics to God, and negligence, which is denying any attributes to God. .…
• Whenever there remains any support for the ego within, even if it be only an atom's weight, then you are pretentious and have a devil…

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