Category: The Jewelled Garden

Once Hazrat Khwaja Usman of Haroon* was questioned as to the signs of the Enlightened.  His Holiness replied: The sign of the Enlightened is renunciation.  The one who takes to Continue Reading →

To what point belongs the saying “Ana al-Haqq”? What do you say? Is this ultimate riddle just nonsense?* Reply “Ana al-Haqq” is a complete unveiling of secrets. Except for the Continue Reading →

Know that each word of prayer is a complete self. If all of your strength is not in it, it is born incomplete, like one lacking a limb. * * Continue Reading →

Someone asked Abdullah Mubarak,* “What is the best human quality?” He replied, “Wisdom.” What if someone is not wise?  What is then the best human quality?” “Politness.” “What if a Continue Reading →

Death comes as the key of the house of the Secret; without death, the door of true religion opens not. While this world stays, that is not; while you exist, Continue Reading →

Broadcast, O mullah, your merciful call to prayer— you yourself are a mosque with ten doors. Make your mind your Mecca, your body, the Ka’aba— your Self itself is the Continue Reading →

Your life has a limit but knowledge has none. If you use what is limited to pursue what has no limit, you will be in danger. If you understand this Continue Reading →

Oh, Allah, Whomever searches for You behind the covers of reason, adores You out of fear or greed. Whomever loves You for Your kindness, will forget You when in sorrow. Continue Reading →

A man said to Sahl ibn ‘Abd Allah, ” A thief has broken into my house and stolen my belongings!” Sahl replied, “Be grateful to God.  For if the thief Continue Reading →

He is One, and number has no place in Him; He is Absolute, and dependence is far removed from Him, —not that ‘one’ which reason and understanding can know, —not Continue Reading →