Three Things Make Me Laugh, and Three Things Make Me Cry

Salman al-Farisi (ra) said:
Three things make me laugh, and three things make me cry. I laugh at
someone who stretches his hopes in this world, being unmindful of
death which is steadily seeking to end his life. I laugh at someone
who is heedless and unaware that Allah is not unmindful of him. And
finally, I laugh at someone [...]

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Light and Dhikr

“The lights of some people precede their dhikr, while the dhikr of
some people precede their lights. There is the one who does (loud)
dhikr so that his heart be illumined; and there is the one whose
heart has been illumined and he does (silent) dhikr.”
- Ibn ‘Ata’Allah -

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Contemplation

“So long as you have not contemplated the Creator,
you belong to created beings;
but when you have contemplated Him,
created beings belong to you.”
- Ibn ‘Ata’Allah -

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Lost and Found

“What has he lost who has found You,
and what has he found who has lost You? “
- Ibn ‘Ata’Allah -

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Circles of Dhikr

 
Letters (No. 40) of Mawlay ad-Darqawi

Faqir, the secret action is seventy times better than the public action, as is reported in tradition. Allah knows best, but we think that the circle of dhikr which our brothers, the fuqara’, hold publicly – standing and sitting, in zawiyyas and in houses, in isolated places and inhabited [...]

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