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The saint’s protection is Truth’s sword: your time with him is worth as much as the cup of life itself.

All the wise have said the same: the one who knows God is God’s mercy to His creatures . . .

Companionship with the holy makes you one of them. Though you’re rock or marble, you’ll become a jewel when you reach the man of heart.

Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don’t give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.

Don’t go to the neighborhood of despair: there is hope. Don’t go in the direction of darkness: suns exist.

Women of Sufism: A Hidden Treasure by Camille Helminski

It is interesting that Camille Helminski begins her book about women in Sufism with the Hidden Treasure Hadith. My intuition has always been that the Hidden Treasure symbolically points to the Divine Feminine, comparable with the Symbolism of the Holy Grail in the Western Esoteric Tradition.

“The sight of God in woman is the most perfect of all.” 

~ Ibn Arabi

Rumi says something similar in his Masnavi:

“She (woman) is a ray of God, she is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, you might say she is not created.”

“Quant à la phrase :“Depuis que j’ai réalisé l’unité je ne crains plus la séparation, etc.”, elle signifie : j’ai vu l’unité dans la multiplicité, de sorte que je ne crains plus de voir la multiplicité dans l’unité, comme je le craignais avant que je ne contemplasse mon Seigneur en chaque chose. Sans aucun doute, il n’y a de réalité hors Dieu ; ce n’est que l’imagination (wahm) qui Le voile à nos yeux, et l’imagination est vaine. En ce sens, le vénérable maître, le saint Ibn ‘Atâï-Llâh, dit dans ses Hikam : “Si le voile de l’imagination se déchirait, la vision essentielle aurait lieu, annihilant toute vision individuelle, et la lumière de la certitude voilerait, en se levant, toute existence relative”.”

“There are no „others“. What appears to be „other than God“ is in fact foam upon the Ocean, forms manifesting meanings, the Hidden Treasure displaying itself outwardly, sunlight upon a wall. All multiplicity is the manifestation of Unity. (p. 304)”