My god how gentle you are with me in spite of my great ignorance and how merciful You are with me in spite of my ugly deeds.

When Allah inspires your tongue to ask, know that He wants to give.

The most excellent of those who perform good deeds are those who most often remember God in all situations..

The ambition of the spiritual traveller never wants to stop with what it has been shown save that the voices of reality call to him, "what you seek i….

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, He has not opened if for you ….

If you do not know the blessings you have when you have them, then Allah will teach you about them by taking them away from you.

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 two things, let alone fo….

Whosoever is determined to seek guidance and follow a path of right conduct must search for a shaykh from amongst those who have realization, one who….

A sign of the death of the heart: lack of sadness about beneficial actions you have missed, and lack of regret about your mistakes..

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 hi….

If you want a glory that does not vanish, then do not glory in a glory that vanishes.

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 remembrance….

If you are aware of your humility, then you are arrogant..

When the invocation descends into the heart, if there is darkness within, it illuminates it; and if there is already light, the invocation increases ….

. . . persist in that invocation until the unity of the world is subsumed for you in a single sphere, so that with the eye of your heart you will see….

When He gives, He shows you His Kindness; when He deprives, He shows you His power. And in all that, He is making Himself known to you and coming to ….

When the heart becomes empty, the mimbar of the Divine Oneness is placed therein and the sultan of gnosis sits upon it..

People praise you for what they suppose is in you; but you must blame your soul for what you know is in it..

It may well be that you are in a bad state, but to keep company with someone worse than you would allow to see good in yourself..

So long as you are in this world, be not surprised at the existence of sorrows..

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 as ….