5 Hidden Teachers
A group of high-school students came to me, saying: “Tell us about our Creator, our teachers do not speak of God.” I said to them: “All the sciences you study continuously speak of God and…
Your heart, identity, and nature are a mirror.
Heart There are certain foolish people who because they do not recognize the sun if they see it in a mirror, start to love the mirror. With intense emotion, they try to preserve the mirror…
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…
On human happiness and misery
Happiness We have some relationship with and are in need of most species. Our needs range into all parts of the universe, and our desires range as far as eternity. We desire a single flower…
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…
Who is God? (“God is One”)
Good News This phrase announces the following good news, which is both healing and a source of happiness: Man’s spirit and heart, which are connected to most of the creatures in the universe and are…
The purest joy for the human spirit
Be certain of this, that the highest aim of creation and its most important result is belief in God. The most exalted rank in humanity and its highest degree is the knowledge of God contained…
A daughter like St. Mary
St. Mary Supplication is either accepted exactly as desired or what is better is granted. For example, someone asks for a son and Almighty God bestows a daughter like Mary. One should not say that…
The Elephant
A man was walking through an elephant camp, and he spotted that the elephants weren’t being kept in cages or held by the use of chains. All that was holding them back from escaping the…
