slaveofLord_22
24th May 2007, 01:43 PM
His Sayings :
I made four mistakes in my preliminary steps in this way:
I thought that I remember Him,
that I know Him,
that I love Him,
and that I seek Him;
but when I reached Him, I saw that His remembering of me preceded my remembrance of Him, that His knowledge about me preceded my knowledge of Him, that His love towards me was more ancient than my love towards Him, and that He sought me in order that I would begin to seek Him.”
And he said, praying to God, “O Lord, You have created this creation without its knowledge. You have placed on it a trust without its will. If You do not help it, who will?”
He said that the ultimate goal of the Sufi is to experience the vision of God in the hereafter.
To that effect he said, “There are special servants of God who, if God veiled Himself from their sight in Paradise, would implore Him to take them out of Paradise just as the inhabitants of the Fire implore Him to release them from Hell.”
He also said, “O God! It is not strange that I love You because I am a weak servant, but it is strange that You love me when You are the King of Kings.”
He said, “As long as the servant thinks that there is among the Muslims someone lower than himself, that servant still has pride.”
He said:I never saw any lamp shining more brilliantly than the lamp of silence.
I made four mistakes in my preliminary steps in this way:
I thought that I remember Him,
that I know Him,
that I love Him,
and that I seek Him;
but when I reached Him, I saw that His remembering of me preceded my remembrance of Him, that His knowledge about me preceded my knowledge of Him, that His love towards me was more ancient than my love towards Him, and that He sought me in order that I would begin to seek Him.”
And he said, praying to God, “O Lord, You have created this creation without its knowledge. You have placed on it a trust without its will. If You do not help it, who will?”
He said that the ultimate goal of the Sufi is to experience the vision of God in the hereafter.
To that effect he said, “There are special servants of God who, if God veiled Himself from their sight in Paradise, would implore Him to take them out of Paradise just as the inhabitants of the Fire implore Him to release them from Hell.”
He also said, “O God! It is not strange that I love You because I am a weak servant, but it is strange that You love me when You are the King of Kings.”
He said, “As long as the servant thinks that there is among the Muslims someone lower than himself, that servant still has pride.”
He said:I never saw any lamp shining more brilliantly than the lamp of silence.