Sufi Quotes of Ibn-e-Ataullah Sikandari
Sometimes He gives while depriving you, and sometimes He deprives you in giving.
Sometimes He gives while depriving you, and sometimes He deprives you in giving.
No deed is more fruitful for the heart than the one you are not aware of and which is deemed paltry by you.
No deed is more fruitful for the heart than the one you are not aware of and which is deemed paltry by you.
Whoever is not thankful for graces runs the risk of losing them, and whoever is thankful fetters them with their own cords.
Whoever is not thankful for graces runs the risk of losing them, and whoever is thankful fetters them with their own cords.
How can it be conceived that something veils Him, since he is the One alongside of whom there is nothing?
How can it be conceived that something veils Him, since he is the One alongside of whom there is nothing?
Cling to the attributes of His Lordship and realize the attributes of your servanthood!
Cling to the attributes of His Lordship and realize the attributes of your servanthood!
Many a life is tong in years but meager in fruits, and many a life is short in years but rich in fruits.
Many a life is tong in years but meager in fruits, and many a life is short in years but rich in fruits.
How can you seek recompense for a deed He bestowed upon you out of charity? Or how can you seek recompense for a sincerity He gave you as a gift?
How can you seek recompense for a deed He bestowed upon you out of charity? Or how can you seek recompense for a sincerity He gave you as a gift?
Whatever is deposited in the invisible world of innermost hearts is manifested in the visible world phenomena.
Whatever is deposited in the invisible world of innermost hearts is manifested in the visible world phenomena.
After the fights of inspirations have rayed out and their mysteries have been deposited, do not seek their continuance, for you have in God one who enables you to dispense with everything; but nothing enables you to dispense with God.
After the fights of inspirations have rayed out and their mysteries have been deposited, do not seek their continuance, for you have in God one who enables you to dispense with everything; but nothing enables you to dispense with God.
Nothing pleads on your behalf like extreme need, nor does anything speed gifts to you quicker than lowliness and want.
Nothing pleads on your behalf like extreme need, nor does anything speed gifts to you quicker than lowliness and want.
Let not our asking be the cause of His giving, for then your understanding of Him might diminish. Let your asking be for the sake of showing servanthood and fulfilling the rights of Lordship.
Let not our asking be the cause of His giving, for then your understanding of Him might diminish. Let your asking be for the sake of showing servanthood and fulfilling the rights of Lordship.
When He knew that you would not renounce Him, He made you contemplate that which issues from Him.
When He knew that you would not renounce Him, He made you contemplate that which issues from Him.
Only His extreme nearness to you is what veils God from you.
Only His extreme nearness to you is what veils God from you.
He who has been blessed in life attains, in a short time, to such gifts from God that no expression or symbolic allusion could describe.
He who has been blessed in life attains, in a short time, to such gifts from God that no expression or symbolic allusion could describe.
There is a light wherewith He unveils for you His created things, and there is a Light wherewith He unveils for you His Attributes.
There is a light wherewith He unveils for you His created things, and there is a Light wherewith He unveils for you His Attributes.
Were it not for the kindliness of His veiling, no deed would be worthy of acceptance.
Were it not for the kindliness of His veiling, no deed would be worthy of acceptance.
Your requesting Him is suspecting Him. Your seeking Him is due to your absence from Him. Your seeking someone else is because of your immodesty towards Him. Your requesting someone else is on account of your distance from Him.
Your requesting Him is suspecting Him. Your seeking Him is due to your absence from Him. Your seeking someone else is because of your immodesty towards Him. Your requesting someone else is on account of your distance from Him.
Appeal to no one but Him to relieve you of a pressing need that He Himself has brought upon you. For how can someone else remove what He has imposed? And how can he who is unable to free himself of a pressing need free anyone else of one?
Appeal to no one but Him to relieve you of a pressing need that He Himself has brought upon you. For how can someone else remove what He has imposed? And how can he who is unable to free himself of a pressing need free anyone else of one?
When you seek a recompense for a deed, the existence of sincerity in it is demanded of you in return. As for the insincere, the feeling of security from chastisement suffices him.
When you seek a recompense for a deed, the existence of sincerity in it is demanded of you in return. As for the insincere, the feeling of security from chastisement suffices him.
It suffices as a reward for the doers of good that He has inspired obedience to Him in their hearts and brought upon them the existence of His reciprocal intimacy.
It suffices as a reward for the doers of good that He has inspired obedience to Him in their hearts and brought upon them the existence of His reciprocal intimacy.
If you want a glory that does not vanish, then do not glory in a glory that vanishes.
If you want a glory that does not vanish, then do not glory in a glory that vanishes.
Sometime He reveals to you the invisible domain of His Realm but veils you from knowing the secrets of servants.
Sometime He reveals to you the invisible domain of His Realm but veils you from knowing the secrets of servants.
The hearts and the innermost centers of being are the piaces where lights arise.
The hearts and the innermost centers of being are the piaces where lights arise.
He only made affliction come at the hands of people so that you not repose in them. He wanted to drive you out of everything so that nothing would divert you from Him.
He only made affliction come at the hands of people so that you not repose in them. He wanted to drive you out of everything so that nothing would divert you from Him.
Nothing benefits the heart more then a spiritual retreat whercin it enters the domain of meditation.
Nothing benefits the heart more then a spiritual retreat whercin it enters the domain of meditation.
When He alienates you from His creatures, then know that He wants to open for you the door of intimacy with Him.
When He alienates you from His creatures, then know that He wants to open for you the door of intimacy with Him.
Sometimes He opens the door of obedience for you but not the door of acceptance; or sometimes He condemns you to sin, and it turns out to be a cause of arriving at Him.
Sometimes He opens the door of obedience for you but not the door of acceptance; or sometimes He condemns you to sin, and it turns out to be a cause of arriving at Him.
To soften for you the suffering of affliction, He has taught, you that He is the One who causes trials to come upon you. For the one who confronts you with His decrees of Fate is the same who has accustomed you to His good choice.
To soften for you the suffering of affliction, He has taught, you that He is the One who causes trials to come upon you. For the one who confronts you with His decrees of Fate is the same who has accustomed you to His good choice.
How can it be conceived that something veils Him, since He is hearer to you than anything else?
How can it be conceived that something veils Him, since He is hearer to you than anything else?
The best that you can seek from Him is that which he seeks from you.
The best that you can seek from Him is that which he seeks from you.
Actions are lifeless forms, but the presence of an inner reality of sincerity (sirr al-ikhals) within them is what endows them with life-giving Spirit.
Actions are lifeless forms, but the presence of an inner reality of sincerity (sirr al-ikhals) within them is what endows them with life-giving Spirit.
When He makes you submissive to His command outwardly and provide you with resignation to His power inwardly, then He has enhanced the greatness of the favour accorded you:
When He makes you submissive to His command outwardly and provide you with resignation to His power inwardly, then He has enhanced the greatness of the favour accorded you:
No search pursued with the help of your Lord remains at a standstill, but any search pursued by yourself will not be fruitful.
No search pursued with the help of your Lord remains at a standstill, but any search pursued by yourself will not be fruitful.
Do not deem Him giving to be slow; but rather, deem your approaching to slow.
Do not deem Him giving to be slow; but rather, deem your approaching to slow.
No deed arising from a renouncing heart is small, and no deed arising from an avaricious heart is fruitful.
No deed arising from a renouncing heart is small, and no deed arising from an avaricious heart is fruitful.
A gift from man is deprivation, and deprivation from God is beneficence.
A gift from man is deprivation, and deprivation from God is beneficence.
There is a light deposited in hearts which is nourished by the Light coming from the treasuries of the invisible realms.
There is a light deposited in hearts which is nourished by the Light coming from the treasuries of the invisible realms.
When He gives you obedience, making you unaware of it because of Him, then know that He has showered you liberally with His graces both inwardly and outwardly.
When He gives you obedience, making you unaware of it because of Him, then know that He has showered you liberally with His graces both inwardly and outwardly.
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.
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.
He made an inspiration come upon you so as to take you out of the prison of your existence to the unlimited space of your contemplation.
He made an inspiration come upon you so as to take you out of the prison of your existence to the unlimited space of your contemplation.
Real humility is the one which arises from the contemplation of His Sublimity and illumination of His Attribute.
Real humility is the one which arises from the contemplation of His Sublimity and illumination of His Attribute.
Do not keep company with anyone whose state does not inspire you and whose speech does not lead you to God.
Do not keep company with anyone whose state does not inspire you and whose speech does not lead you to God.
Your striving for what has already been guaranteed to you, and your remissness in what is demanded of you, are signs of the blurring of your intellect.
Your striving for what has already been guaranteed to you, and your remissness in what is demanded of you, are signs of the blurring of your intellect.
How can the laws of nature be ruptured for you so that miracles result, while you, for your part, have yet to rupture your bad habits.
How can the laws of nature be ruptured for you so that miracles result, while you, for your part, have yet to rupture your bad habits.
How astonishing is he who flees from what is inescapable and searches for what is perishable! “For surely it is not theteyes that are blind, but blind are the hearts which are in the breast.”
How astonishing is he who flees from what is inescapable and searches for what is perishable! “For surely it is not theteyes that are blind, but blind are the hearts which are in the breast.”
The real journey is when the world’s dimension is rolled away from you so that you see the Hereafter closer to you than yourself.
The real journey is when the world’s dimension is rolled away from you so that you see the Hereafter closer to you than yourself.
When He opens up your understanding of deprivation, the deprivation becomes the same as the gift.
When He opens up your understanding of deprivation, the deprivation becomes the same as the gift.
He who knows God, contemplates Him in everything. He who is extinguished by Him is absent from everything. Who loves Him prefers nothing to Him.
He who knows God, contemplates Him in everything. He who is extinguished by Him is absent from everything. Who loves Him prefers nothing to Him.
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