Fasting is a way to save on food. Vigil and prayer is a labor for old folks. Pilgrimage is an occasion for tourism. To distribute bread in alms is something for philanthropists. Fall in love: That is doing something! Khwaja Abdullah Ansari

The religion of God is Light. His Book is Light. His Messenger is Light. The abode which He has prepared for His intimate friends glows with Light. God is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth; one of His name is Light. Ibn Qayyyim Al Jawziyya

Instead of resisting to changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think ‘My life will be upside down’ don’t worry. How do you know down is not better than upside? Shams Tabrizi

The best of your moments is that in which you are aware of your distress and thrown back upon your own helplessness…. it may be that in distress you will find benefits that you have been unable to find either in prayer or fasting. Shaykh Ibn Ata’illah Al Iskandari

Do not abandon the Invocation because you do not feel the Presence of God therein. For your forgetfulness of the Invocation of Him Is worse than your forgetfulness In the Invocation of Him. Perhaps he will take you from an Invocation With forgetfulness to one with vigilance, And from one […]

Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full. Shams Tabrizi

Sufism is about taste. Without tasting the sweetness of dhikr and knowledge, it is very difficult to continue on the Path. Sayyid Omar Abdullah

Oh how long shall we, like children in the earthly sphere fill our lap with dust and stones and shards? Let us give up the earth and fly heavenwards, Let us flee from childhood to the banquet of men. Behold how the earthly frame has entrapped thee! Rend the sack […]

Pardon those who have oppressed you, keep in contact with those who have cut you off, behave excellently towards those who have done evil to you, and say the truth even if it’s against yourself! Inscribed on the hilt of the Prophet Muhammad (saws) ’s sword

Certainly all things are hidden in their opposites – gain in loss and gift in refusal, honor in humiliation, wealth in poverty, strength in weakness, abundance in restriction, raising up in falling down, life in death, victory in defeat, power in powerlessness. Shaykh Moulay Al Arabi ad Darqawi

The best is to recite the salatul tarawiih in community, but for the ones who will be alone here is a simple memo chart about how to perform it: ISHA (night prayer) = 4 rakat sunna + 4 rakat fard isha + 2 rakat sunna (instead of the usual 4)   (3 […]