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“It is said in the Hadith, 'God is beautiful, and He loves beauty.' This expresses the truth that man, who inherits the Spirit of God, has beauty in him and loves beauty, although that which is beautiful to one is not beautiful to another. Man cultivates the sense of beauty as he evolves, and prefers the higher aspect of beauty to the lower. But when he has observed the highest vision of beauty in the Unseen by a gradual evolution from praising the beauty in the seen world, then the entire existence becomes to him one single vision of beauty.”

The saying goes back to Imam Ali (Peace be upon him): “Your sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it, and your remedy is within you, but you do not sense it. You presume you are a small entity, but within you is enfolded the entire Universe. You are indeed the evident book, by whose alphabet the hidden becomes manifest. Therefore you have no need to look beyond yourself. What you seek is within you, if only you reflect.”

Artwork: Evening Prayer by Jean-Léon Gérôme

„We are here not to add to the sum of our knowledge, nor to collect more facts, but to undergo a different kind of experience, an experience of travel, a journey within, moving through the terrain, the landscape within our own mind, within our own heart, within our own soul, to return to the center of ourselves.“ Pir Zia Inayat-Khan on the Suluk process

Keesokan harinya beliau Syekh Syarafuddin Ad Daghestani memanggil khalifahnya, Syekh 'Abdullah ad-Daghestani QS dan berkata, "Wahai anakku, inilah wasiatku. Aku akan pergi dalam dua hari ini. Atas perintah Rasulullah SAW, Aku menunjukmu sebagai penerusku dalam Tarekat Naqsybandi, bersamaan dengan lima tarekat lain ( Qadiriyyah , Rifa'iyyah , Syadziliyyah , Chistiyyah , Khalwatiyyah ) yang telah kuterima dari pamanku.

Taoism and Sufism – The Open Path is a non-sectarian approach to spiritual realization

“Look, and it can’t be seen. Listen, and it can’t be heard. Reach, and it can’t be grasped. Approach it, and there is no beginning; Follow it, and there is no end. You can’t know it, but you can be it, at ease in your own life.” — Lao Tzu – from a Sufi source – http://sufiway.org/ – (a) home of The Open Path The Open Path is a non-sectarian approach to spiritual realization offered by the Sufi…