There Is No Use In Complaining !
O sick person who complains about his suffering! I say to you: think of your past life and remember the pleasurable and happy days and the distressing and troublesome times. For sure, you will either…
Message for the Sick
FIRST REMEDY Unhappy sick person! Do not be anxious, have patience! Your illness is not a malady for you; it is a sort of cure. For life departs like capital. If it yields no fruits,…
A Dream In A Tunnel
A Dream Once I saw the true nature of this worldly life in a vision, as follows: My Lord had caused me to set out on this journey. He gradually gave me some of the…
Who is God? “His is the praise”
Praise and acclaim are proper to Him, are fitting for Him. That is to say, bounties are His; they come from His treasury. And as for the treasury, it is unending. This phrase, therefore, delivers…
Life is an illusion ?
*illusion: a deceptive appearance or impression. I addressed myself saying: O heedless SELF! Know that it is unworthy of you to attach your heart to something that will not accompany you after this world comes…
A Profitable Trade
Trade If you wish to understand how profitable a trade it is, and how honorable a rank, to sell one’s person and property to God, to be His slave and His soldier, then listen to…
A Living Machine
Man is a living machine who is grieved with thousands of different sorrows and receives pleasure in thousands of different ways, and despite his utter impotence has innumerable enemies, physical and spiritual, and despite his…
The Secrets Of Prayer
Prayer The First Sort of Supplication: This is the tongue of latent ability, through which all seeds and grains supplicate to the All-Wise Creator, saying: “Make us grow! Make our tiny truths sprout and transform…
The Air (A Window onto Divine Unity)
The Air I observed in a subtle point concerning God’s unity, which suddenly became clear while studying the page of the air on a journey of the imagination and mind, that is, in the word…
Who is the most fortunate person?
Fortunate I observe that the most fortunate person in this worldly life is he who sees the world as a military guest-house, and submits himself, and acts accordingly. Seeing it in this way, he may…
