Friday, July 11, 2008

three days of muslim wisdom

Hardship may dishearten at first,
but every hardship passes away.
All despair is followed by hope;
all darkness is followed by sunshine.


-Rumi, "Mathnawi"


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Wherever the delusion of your selfhood appears — there's hell.
Wherever "you" aren't – that's heaven.


-Abu Sa'id in Ibn Munawwar, "Asrar at-tawhid"


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Read the Qur'an as long as you are attentive,
but when you feel your attention slip, put the Book away.


-The Prophet Muhammad (SAW), as reported by Jundub bin Adb'Allah



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