Lock me out of Paradise.
But if I adore you for Yourself alone,
Do not deny to me Your eternal beauty.
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In love, nothing exists between heart and heart.
True description from the real taste.The one who tastes, knows;the one who explains, lies.How can you describe the true form of SomethingIn whose presence you are blotted out?And in whose being you still exist?And who lives as a sign for your journey?
Die Before You Die
Ironic, but one of the most intimate actsof our body isdeath.So beautiful appeared my death – knowing who then I would kiss,I died a thousand times before I died.‘Die before you die,’ said the ProphetMuhammad.Have wings that feared evertouched the Sun?I was born when all I oncefeared – I couldlove.
Your hope in my heart is the rarest treasure
My choicest hoursAre the hours I spend with You —O Allah, I can’t live in this worldWithout remembering You–How can I endure the next worldWithout seeing Your face?I am a stranger in Your countryAnd lonely among Your worshippers:This is the substance of my complaint.
I saw myself in a wide green garden, more beautiful than I could begin to understand. In this garden was a young girl. I said to her, ‘How wonderful this place is!’
‘Oh yes,’ I answered. Then taking me by the hand, she led me on until we came to a magnificent palace, like nothing that was ever seen by human eyes. The young girl knocked on the door, and someone opened it. Immediately both of us were flooded with light.Only Allah knows the inner meaning of…
No one lives outside the walls of this sacred place, existence.
What mother would lose her infant – and we are that to God,never lost from His gaze are we? Every cry of the heartis attended by light’s own arms.You cannot wander anywhere that will not aid you.Anything you can touch – God brought it intothe classroom of your mind.Differences exist, but not in the city…
I have loved Thee with two loves –
As for the love which is selfish,Therein I occupy myself with Thee,to the exclusion of all others.But in the love which is worthy of Thee,Thou dost raise the veil that I may see Thee.Yet is the praise not mine in this or that,But the praise is to Thee in both that and this.