The Futūḥāt Project: Quotations

29 October 2025

Whoever is humbled becomes shattered, and whoever knows fears God.

Book 14, Chapter 110

27 October 2025

Everything is a word of the Divine.

Book 14, Chapter 110

23 October 2025

This Qurʾān will bring to life by means of what is in it – that is, knowledge – and the Earth will be rent asunder, and the mountains will be moved, by means of what is in the Qurʾān, the chiding and threatening.

Book 14, Chapter 110

22 October 2025

As for the slaves – their bonds are their objects of worship.

Book 14, Chapter 109

21 October 2025

All people know their situation. The path is a hard truth, all of it, and serious – not receptive of levity or any uninvited guests, even if the True is so indulgent.

Book 14, Chapter 108

20 October 2025

Their (the ʿárifīn’s) vision is of the sacred Divine hand, everywhere, universally, in every taking and giving.

Book 14, Chapter 108

18 October 2025

The ʿárifīn* have eyes in their hearts.

*ʿárif: the one who recognizes the Divine everywhere

Book 14, Chapter 108

14 October 2025

The caverns of the souls are not perceived except by the stallions among the people of God.

Book 14, Chapter 108

9 October 2025

He exalted did not make Law anything but what will connect you to Him through a felicitous property.

Book 14, Chapter 108

8 October 2025

The ones who know, who fear God, are the real doctors in the religion of God.

Book 14, Chapter 108

6 October 2025

God has set up the scale set by Law in the universe in order to weigh thereby the deeds of the creatures.

Book 14, Chapter 108

5 October 2025

Caution your soul, because the fitnah (trying, proving) that tests you with expansiveness is greater than the fitnah that tests you with difficulty and constriction.

Book 14, Chapter 108

24 September 2025

One of the greatest trials by which God tests the human beings is His informing them that He created them flush against His image, so as to see whether they halt with and learn their slave-basis and their having had to have been enabled in order to be – or they exult on account of the high position of their image.

Book 14, Chapter 108

22 September 2025

Messenger of God ﷺ‎ testified […]: ‘Indeed, due your soul is a right you owe, and due your eye is a right you owe, and due your neighbor is a right you owe, and due your family is a right you owe. Therefore, stay up at night, and sleep; fast, and do not fast. And give each one due a right the right owed.’ So, you should never insert yourself in front of a right owed, ever, or before anyone who is owed a right from you. So now, the greatest of rights is the right owed to God – only then, a right owed to yourself.

Book 13, Chapter 107

19 September 2025

The Prophet ﷺ said, ‘You are all going to be held accountable for the blessing of this day’; and that blessing he was referring to was nothing but some dates and water.

Book 13, Chapter 106

16 September 2025

Hunger is an adornment of the family of God; and I mean by that the conventionally understood hunger, and that is the white death. The family of God receive on their path four deaths. The first one is this one, and then there is the green death: it is wearing clothes that are patched and not conspicuous, not for show. ʿUmar bin al-Khaṭṭāb used to wear clothes that had thirteen patches, and one of them was a piece of hide – and he was the leader of the faithful! And there is the black death, and that is bearing up with insult and hurt. And there is a red death, and that is going against the soul’s desires – and that belongs to the people of blame (malāmīyah). They are invisible to the people and even to themselves, dedicated to the Divine – who jealously protects them. They are blamed for not being visibly pious; and they blame themselves, seeing good only in the Divine.

Book 13, Chapter 106

14 September 2025

Knowledge alone removes grief; and it is His word, in that let them be joyful (Yūnus 10:58).

Book 13, Chapter 104

4 September 2025

Our seeking is aided on His part, so He made Law for us that we should recite, You alone do we ask for help (al-fātiḥah 1:5), and ‘There is no power and no might except by God.’

Book 13, Chapter 104

2 September 2025

This abode and this configuration are configured on neglectful distraction; it is not a configuration for being present, unless you practice and you seek to be present. This is different from the configuration of the next world. He seeks from us that we should configure ourselves in this world with the otherworldly configuration, (that is) being present, not merely trying to be present. Is what is demanded of us something we are incapable of? Or are we not incapable of doing it? It is impossible that there should be demanded of us what has not been placed into us, some capacity bringing to us empowerment to perform it.

Book 13, Chapter 104

29 August 2025

Grief, its rough ride is difficult and its end is
its departure; then God becomes the Friend of the one who experiences grief.

Book 13, Chapter 104

28 August 2025

The felicitous one is the one who flees to Him.

Book 13, Chapter 103

26 August 2025

The hope that the Tribe has is not that of the disobedient ones hoping for the kindness of God. That is another hoping the disobedient have, and it is not a station.

Book 13, Chapter 102

21 August 2025

The hope that is sought on the part of the family of God is what is demanded by the moment, because what you hope for does not exist while in this state. So the one hoping is fearful that the ruling force of the moment will be lost. When the hoping is connected to what the moment demands, you are a person of the moment, no question.

Book 13, Chapter 102

19 August 2025

God said, ‘I am according to the estimation of My creature of Me, so let one estimate Me to be good.’

Book 13, Chapter 102

13 August 2025

Hope is a station at the side of the path, and it is not in the path itself.

Book 13, Chapter 102

12 August 2025

The station is that place where someone with a firm stance in Divine things is anchored. And a place where this is not the case is not a station; no, it is a transitory state, arriving and disappearing according to the disappearance of the property connected and connecting, with an announcement of good tidings or otherwise.

Book 13, Chapter 100

11 August 2025

The configuration of the human being in the next world is based on no (now existing) template, just as one’s configuration in this world had no template; before this human being there was no one who was ‘flush against His form’. This is why there was brought the verse, Just as you began – meaning, without any previous template – you will return (al-aʾrāf 7:29), without any previous template – meaning, for the otherworld configuration.

Book 13, Chapter 99

8 August 2025

Learn, God assist you, that sleep is a state transferring the creature from a vision of the sensory world to a vision of the membrane (barzakh) world, which is the more complete cosmos. And there is actually none more complete; it is a basis of the origination of the cosmos, having the true-based being and ruling force over the matters, all of them, by means of embodying ideas and meaning.

Book 13, Chapter 99

7 August 2025

You have the absolute ability to initiate* what you want in yourself – just not in another.

* Sidi Mansoub, editor of the first complete critical edition of the Futūḥāt, notes that the word may be yunsaba hu instead of yanshaʾahu: ‘the ability to attribute what you want to yourself’.

Book 13, Chapter 97

5 August 2025

Inescapably, every speaker leaves a trace in the soul of the one spoken to.

Book 13, Chapter 97

2 August 2025

Learn, God give you success, that silence is one of four pillars by means of which the men and the women are Alternates (abdāl). One of them was asked, ‘How many are the Alternates?’ He replied, ‘Forty souls.’ He was asked, ‘Why did you not say forty men?’ He said, ‘There may be among the Alternates women.’ It is just as he ﷺ said about perfect completion, citing that perfection is also in the women; and he specified among them Mary daughter of ʿImrān and Āsīyah wife of Pharaoh.

Book 13, Chapter 96

30 July 2025

The gift of the True to the creature is His Breath, and a gift of the creature to the True is a return of this breath to Him by a robe of honor earned by one’s meriting love from one’s Cherisher: So follow me, and God will love you (Āl-i-ʿImrān 3:31).

Book 13, Chapter 95

29 July 2025

One of my friends met one of the abdāl (Alternates; one leaves and another takes her or his place) during his journeying; and he started enumerating for him what the people were in the midst of, with the corruption of their circumstances: in the kingdom, in the government, and in the citizenry. The Alternate grew angry, and he said to him: ‘What are they to you, the creatures of God? Do not insert yourself between the Master and His slave, because raḥmat (kind mercy) and maghfirah (providing forgiveness) and iḥsān (the best conduct) are actively seeking these subjects to act upon. Do you want Divinity to remain idled, not having any force? Attend instead to yourself and turn away from these things; and let your focus be toward Him exalted and your attention be toward God.’

Book 13, Chapter 92

28 July 2025

Hold on and practice, and you will find something wondrous.

Book 13, Chapter 91

21 July 2025

With each station, it is based on the Divine, the Cherisher, or the Supremely Compassionate; there are no others than these three Presences. They universalize over the entirety of Presences, and around them revolves Being, and through them descend the Books, and toward them ascend the ascension ladders.

Book 13, Chapter 91

19 July 2025

Every station on the path to God is earned, stabilized; and every state is given as a gift, not earned and not stabilized.

Book 13, Chapter 91

18 July 2025

Of existence you know only yourself; and if you transfer away from yourself, you will become ignorant of your dhát* and Who created you. You see, he said: ‘Who recognizes himself recognizes his Lord.’

* dhát: essence, core; essential identity

Book 13, Chapter 91

17 July 2025

The intellect m should not overstep his limit.

Book 13, Chapter 90

11 July 2025

Worship God, creatures of God, based on the category that He described Himself as having in His Book or on the tongues of His messengers, without addition and without diminishing, with no far-fetched interpretation leading to trivialization or exaggeration; no, turn over to Him, majestic and exalted is He, whatever He described Himself by, even if it is impossible or contradictory. That presumption of impossibility or contradiction is based on our limitations and our ignorance of what the matter truly is.

Book 13, Chapter 90

10 July 2025

It is impossible for me to argue for something I have no knowledge about.

Book 13, Chapter 90

4 July 2025

The Qurʾān has the quality of gathering together the whole.

Book 13, Chapter 90

1 July 2025

When you know that there is something you do not know, then you know; and this knowing is the knowledge that there is, after all, something unknowable.

Book 13, Chapter 90

30 June 2025

Kindness is spread vastly over everything, and wrath is one of the things encompassed by His kindness.

Book 13, Chapter 90

28 June 2025

The prayer is an intimate conversation, and the one performing dhikr is seated with the True; so if you remember Him, then He exalted is your tongue speaking.

Book 13, Chapter 90

27 June 2025

All your moments are populated by prophetic Laws and root practices.

Book 13, Chapter 90

26 June 2025

The continuous practice of remembrance is that He said to whatever He desired to be in existence, Be! and it became.

Book 13, Chapter 89

24 June 2025

Most of the prophets were married, as in marriage there is a verification for yourself of the image that you were created flush against. But only a few of the people know this from a pathway of kashf;* no, it is only the ʿárifīn* among the family of God (who know).

* kashf: unveiling
* ʿárifīn: the ones who recognize the Divine everywhere

Book 13, Chapter 89

23 June 2025

He is the visibly manifest in the enabled entity itself; and the enabled being is His site of visible manifestation.

Book 13, Chapter 88

19 June 2025

The hearts are a place of dictation (kitābah, book) of God. It is the statement of the Lawgiver: ‘Cease what you are in doubt about and go to what you are not doubtful about.’ And his word, ‘Take a fatwā from your heart, even if you have asked the muftis for a fatwā.’

Book 13, Chapter 88

18 June 2025

Islam is about fairness.

Book 13, Chapter 88

13 June 2025

God by inspiration reads out and dictates to the hearts the entirety of what is etched in the cosmos in being – as the cosmos is a Divine Book inscribed.

Book 13, Chapter 88

12 June 2025

Learn that the basics of the principles of the Law that are agreed upon are three: the Book, the Sunnah transmitted through unbroken chains, and consensus. The scholars disagree about analogical reasoning. Among them some argue that it constitutes evidence and is one of the bases for the principles. And others argue against it; and I so argue.

Book 13, Chapter 88

9 June 2025

Learn, may God give you success and give you understanding, that the Fire may be taken as a remedy for some sicknesses.

Book 13, Chapter 87

7 June 2025

The configuration of this world was without a previous template; and it is His word, We have taught you the first configuration; why will you not reflect (al-wāqiʿah 56:62)? Why will you not reflect that it was without a previous template?

Book 13, Chapter 86

4 June 2025

Dependency and incapacity are in this world and the next,
so the utmost proximity is a nearness in which there is distancing.

Book 13, Chapter 86

2 June 2025

The created beings are differentiated and are numbered according to the numbering of the entities and their differentiation in Himself. There is in being only God and the properties of the entities, and there is in the thing-based emptiness only entities prepared to be enabled and described by being.

Book 13, Chapter 85

31 May 2025

We are veiled from You only by You, and You veil Yourself from us only by means of Your visible emergence.

Book 13, Chapter 85

30 May 2025

After probing and analysis, we see and the Old (timeless) word is provided: simply that You are the veils themselves. This is why the veils are veiled: so we do not see them, despite their being light and light-blocking. It is what You named for us: ‘the visible’ and ‘the invisible’. You told us to be aware of Allāh. And if, and only if, Allāh were not exactly the entity of the light-based veil over Him as part of the name the Visible, and the light-blocking veil based on the name the Invisible, we would be idolaters associating partners with Him. But it is confirmed that we are ones declaring You One, so it is confirmed that You are the entity of the veil.

Book 13, Chapter 85

28 May 2025

Human beings do not see themselves, so how can we see You while You are closer to us than ourselves? The utmost proximity is a veil just as the utmost distance is a veil.

Book 13, Chapter 85

26 May 2025

The sacred trust is a loan, not owned; whoever has it is told to return it to its rightful owner as soon as possible. It is your saying, ‘There is no power and no might except by God’ – that is, capacity is established by God, not by us.

Book 13, Chapter 84

23 May 2025

Those who take note that their capability is something provided to them, and that it belongs to the One who provided it, never make claims about being capable; no, capability is a sacred trust lent to them, not owned.

Book 13, Chapter 84

21 May 2025

If not for the creature making claims of being capable of doing things and being able to act independently, God would not have sent down a task at all, nor a Law.

Book 13, Chapter 84

20 May 2025

It is rare that human beings in their activities give all they are capable of; there is always some little reserve left over.

Book 13, Chapter 84

16 May 2025

We argue for the perpetual accompaniment of the station of taqwá in this world and the next. When you learn this, you will know that the station of taqwá – taqwá of God – is something earned by the creature; and this is why you are commanded to have it. And it is this way for everything you are commanded to have: it is a station earned. And this is why a group argue that the stations are earned and the states are gifted.

Book 13, Chapter 84

14 May 2025

The (Divine) name Gentle has preponderated in our being – since al-Raḥmān preserves us; thus, Kindness f is weightier and her ruling is executed. She is the root of the creative process – while punishment is a chance ruling, and chance matters have no stability. You see, being always accompanies us; so our final destination is toward Kindness and her rule.

Book 13, Chapter 84

12 May 2025

Allāh is the combination of all the mutually opposing (Divine) names.

Book 13, Chapter 84

10 May 2025

Do not be aware of God except in comprehending wholly
everything in existence in its wisdom.
So be aware with taqwá* of the misfortune in good fortune,
and be aware of the good fortune in misfortune.

* taqwā: being aware of God, cautious lest one step wrongly and incur rightful Divine wrath. If you come into a state of taqwā, God promises to teach you.

Book 13, Chapter 84

8 May 2025

A settled moment and being still – this is staying back when this is your vision; you have already arrived at your goal! If you shift and transfer onward after this, it is a transfer from good to good, or from a lesser good to a greater good.

Book 13, Chapter 83

6 May 2025

Your niche and your lantern are your visible configuration housing the soul, outwardly and inwardly, because the two in their place are two guardians.

Book 13, Chapter 81

5 May 2025

Worship is the basis upon which we were created – for Him. I created the jinn and the humans only to worship Me (al-dhāriyāt 51:56) – thus, worship is a true name for the slave. And it is its dhát,* and its proper home, and its state, and its entity, and its self, and its truth, and its face.

* dhát: essence, core; essential identity

Book 13, Chapter 80

2 May 2025

The stabilized entities have come from the first void and are like skeletons waiting to be made alive with being.

Book 13, Chapter 80

1 May 2025

Everyone who is ignorant of his ignorance is someone with two ignorances, but whoever recognizes his ignorance has just one ignorance.

Book 13, Chapter 79

29 April 2025

He said, We will show them Our signs in the horizons and in their selves (fuṣṣilat 41:53) – in order to inform them that the human being is an epitome of the universe, encompassing the signs that are in the universe.

Book 13, Chapter 78

26 April 2025

The human beings are the last of the reproducing generators in the universe, God creating them to bring together the truths of the universe entirely.

Book 13, Chapter 78

25 April 2025

The human being is a microcosmos and the universe is a macro human being.

Book 13, Chapter 78

23 April 2025

God is the end of every path, as to Him returns the matter, entirely (Hūd 11:123).

Book 13, Chapter 76

21 April 2025

Struggle, for the soul, is bearing the burden of bodily pains affecting the constitution with feebleness and weakness – just as spiritual exercises rectify the psychological virtues by bringing the soul to bear suffering insult with dignity – and what is external to one’s body, such as what causes no movement in one bodily.

Book 13, Chapter 76

19 April 2025

With regard to the True there is no past or future.

Book 13, Chapter 76

18 April 2025

The root is that there is no return and that the matter goes on and on to infinity, not ending and not being encompassed. As there is no end to the Necessary Being, there is no end to the enabled beings. He is the Creator always, perpetually, and it is invalid that this principle should stop.

Book 13, Chapter 75

15 April 2025

God loves the oft-returners (al-baqarah 2:222) – oft-returning to Him in every moment, from opposition and from conformity – so He accepts the beloved in every moment.

Book 13, Chapter 75

14 April 2025

The call of the True is heard only by the True.

Book 13, Chapter 75

12 April 2025

To where shall I turn? If He calls, then He is the called – since no one is called to except one who can hear. And He is your hearing, so you do not hear except by Him; you do not find Him missing during His call to you. This is a definition of authentic knowledge.

Book 13, Chapter 75

10 April 2025

Cognitive sensing is a knowledge that is synoptic, certain, aware that there is thereafter something to be cognitively sensed – but one does not know what that to-be-sensed thing is. Knowing God is a sensing, but sensing is not knowing what exactly it is that is being sensed.

Book 13, Chapter 75

7 April 2025

The names of the Divine – everything – they are those who
are never described by any fading of the brilliant radiance of being.

Book 13, Chapter 75

4 April 2025

With the stations – there is no benefit from them unless there is an effect traced on the individual, because they are sought out for that reason, not for themselves.

Book 13, Chapter 74

3 April 2025

How many there are who are experts in the essential definition of a station but have not a whiff of it!

Book 13, Chapter 74

2 April 2025

Learn that the station of tawbah* is one of the stations that will accompany you until the moment of death, as long as you are addressed with things you must do. I mean here the tawbah of Law. As for the tawbah for the people who verify in the true dimension for themselves – it is never lifted off, neither in this world nor in the next. Tawbah has a beginning but it has no end.

* tawbah: turning. Then He turned towards them, that they might also turn (al-tawbah 9:118).

Book 13, Chapter 74

27 March 2025

God does not reiterate anything in being.

Book 13, Chapter 74

26 March 2025

Every chance event will vanish, and every essential one will remain, continuing.

Book 13, Chapter 74

25 March 2025

He is the sought-for goal of the return.

Book 13, Chapter 74

24 March 2025

The desire of the True for them all is their felicity in the final destination, even if He grants them (in the meantime) whatever He grants that contradicts felicity.

Book 13, Chapter 74

21 March 2025

Abbreviating is better than putting in more, as the subject of speaking and explaining truths of the matters will never end; no, the knowledge of God is too vast, and His education of us will never halt before any boundary.

Book 13, Chapter 73

19 March 2025

If not for God saying to this deed, ‘Be in this place,’ it would not be.

Book 13, Chapter 73

18 March 2025

In His Hand is the ownership of everything, even though He addresses His creatures with doing things – while He is the one who does by them, not they (by themselves).

Book 13, Chapter 73

12 March 2025

There is no helper but God.

Book 13, Chapter 73

11 March 2025

God looks only at the heart of the creature.

Book 13, Chapter 73

10 March 2025

If you ask, ‘What is the traveler?’ – We answer, They are the ones who walk over the stations with their state (ḥāl), not with their knowledge – and that is the action; thus, the knowledge they have is ‘a state of the station itself’.

Book 13, Chapter 73

6 March 2025

If you ask, ‘What is the moment?’ – We answer, What you are moved by without looking back to the past or into the future. In this way is the property of the people of the path.

Book 13, Chapter 73

5 March 2025

If you ask, ‘What is the Presence?’ – We answer, A Presence of the heart by the True upon your being made unseen, so you are described with annihilation.
If you ask, ‘What is annihilation?’ – We answer, An annihilation of the creature’s sight seeing himself doing something that God has made stand up for him

Book 13, Chapter 73

4 March 2025

If you ask, ‘What is the True?’ – We answer, Negating the effects of your qualities away from you by His qualities, because He is the One who does through you and in you and based on you – not you. There is no beast except He is the one who takes her by her forelock (Hūd 11:56).

Book 13, Chapter 73

3 March 2025

If you ask, ‘What is the spirit?’ – We answer, The one who casts into the heart knowledge of the unseen in a special way based on which the soul learns.

Book 13, Chapter 73

1 March 2025

Engage yourself with Me; do not mix in with other than Me,
as the pursuit of other than Me is other than My pursuit and radiant attention.

Book 13, Chapter 73

25 February 2025

If you ask, ‘What is the lasan?’ – We answer, What occasions Divine clarity to the ears of the ʿárifīn, and it is a word of the Presence.
If you ask, ‘What is the word of the Presence?’ – We answer, Be! And Be! is said only to the one that is seen, so that the One who is saying Be! is known by seeing.

Book 13, Chapter 73

21 February 2025

If you ask, ‘What is the sawāʾ?’ – We answer, The invisible inside of the True in creation, and the invisible inside of creation in the True. This happens only for the ones who recognize that they are visible sites for the emergence of the True, and they are, upon that, an inside of the True.

Book 13, Chapter 73

19 February 2025

If you ask, ‘What is taṣawwuf’ – We answer, Halting thinking-thinking, and learning (wuqūf) with good manners given in the Law both outwardly and inwardly. And they are the generous virtues. It is that you interact with everything according to what is fitting – that which will be praised – on your part. You will not be able to do this until you become someone awake.

Book 13, Chapter 73

12 February 2025

Being is His.

Book 13, Chapter 73

11 February 2025

There is no space or time in the Divine Presence.

Book 13, Chapter 73

7 February 2025

The enabled being will never cease being a visibly emerging site for the True.

Book 13, Chapter 73

4 February 2025

As long as knowledge is not tasted, the thinking of the listener will not be free from denial, refusing to accept things because of his intellect.

Book 13, Chapter 73

3 February 2025

We request and we beseech God that He not veil us, during our taking on of the Divine names, from our slave-basis.

Book 13, Chapter 73

1 February 2025

The complete human being looks by means of the Eye of God.

Book 13, Chapter 73

30 January 2025

The human beings are this way: even if their mass is small compared with the mass of the universe, they combine the whole of the truths of the great (macro-cosmic) universe. This is why the intelligent people say, ‘The universe is the great human being.’

Book 13, Chapter 73

27 January 2025

AdamEve came out flush against an image of the name Allāh, as this name includes the entirety of the Divine names.

Book 13, Chapter 73

24 January 2025

The human being, who is Adam, is an allegoric expression for the whole of the universe; indeed, he is the small human, and he is the condensed summary of the great cosmos.

Book 13, Chapter 73

21 January 2025

Each name in the universe is His name, not the name of another.

Book 13, Chapter 73

20 January 2025

It should not be said about me that I in fact know everything I am speaking about; this is not necessary in order for me to speak about something. In fact, we have transmitted – from the event and from kashf* disclosed – the whole of what I am writing down, and so it is not necessary that I should be someone who actually knows it; no. I have said this lest it be imagined that I have spoken only of what I have knowledge of. But what is demanded of me by the True is the pure devotion that is unsullied by lordliness either in the sensory dimension or in the meaning dimension (in transmission).

* kashf: unveiling

Book 13, Chapter 73

10 January 2025

As for the family of God – with them there is the Divine courtesy, something that prevents them from covering up what God has disclosed, or their disclosing what God has covered up.

Book 13, Chapter 73

9 January 2025

It is inappropriate for us to elucidate for the general population what the True has obscured from His creation and made singled out for His special ones, because this is the height of bad manners.

Book 13, Chapter 73

8 January 2025

He exalted said, He is the One who blesses (yuṣallī) you (al-aḥzāb 33:43) – that is, He postpones (and makes ‘follow after’) His dhikr until after your dhikr,* so He does not remember you until you remember Him, and you do not remember Him until He makes you successful and inspires you to His dhikr. Thus, He reminds you by His dhikr of you; then you remember Him by Him or by you – so He reminds you by you and by Him (with ‘and’, not ‘or’). You see, He has the two remembrances simultaneously. It may be, for some of the ones who know, two remembrances simultaneously; and it may be a single one and not the other, for some other people.

*dhikr: The muṣallī is the one praying, the one following after, and the one blessing.

Book 13, Chapter 73

7 January 2025

There is no good path in declaring an expert wrong in some interpretation (of the Qurʿān) that the phrasing supports, because it will be the one declaring him wrong who will be shown to have the utmost shortfall in knowledge. But it is unnecessary to argue for it or to put this interpretation into practice; it is only for the case of that interpreter alone and whoever follows him.

Book 13, Chapter 73

6 January 2025

Those who learn the timing of their breaths know the facing of God to them during every day, because that breath is from the Breath of the Supremely Compassionate (the nafas al-Raḥmān).

Book 13, Chapter 73

3 January 2025

The special ones are present with God during 24,000 iterations each day.

Book 13, Chapter 73

1 January 2025

The core revelation that their selves require is that they celebrate God with His praise.

Book 13, Chapter 73

31 December 2024

When He looks at their secret hearts, He gives them some knowledge of Him – as much as He likes, no more; and this is where He discloses to them for their sakes that they are by Him, not by them, so they should see Him in them and not see themselves.

Book 13, Chapter 73

20 December 2024

One of the masters said, concerning what was related by Qushayrī in his Risālat, ‘If a person faces toward God the length of his life, then is turned away from Him for a single blink of an eye, what he misses during that glance is greater than what he was given all his life.’

Book 13, Chapter 73

18 December 2024

To what does He look in them?
The answer: To their secret hearts, not to their outward aspects.

Book 13, Chapter 73

17 December 2024

What is its development on them in the (Divine) grip?
The answer: Churning, and that is what is happening to them. They are raised and lowered, expanded and contracted, disclosed and covered up, hidden and open; and they fall into agitation. They are familiar; they are alienated. The general effect on them is alteration in states, because it is an essential development – because if there were no alterations, the fact of His being God (having Divine names) would be idled, deferred, while the fact of His being God is an essential quality He has. Thus, alteration in the development of the enabled beings is necessary, never disengaged – just as they are in the grip, ever.

Book 13, Chapter 73

13 December 2024

The general population are in the station of similarity (of God to creation), and these others (the people of kashf, unveiling) are in a station of similarity and transcendence. The intellectuals are in a station of transcendence only. For the people who are His special ones, God combines these two extremes.

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12 December 2024

There is nothing in the world except its root is based on a Divine truth.

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10 December 2024

Every organic body is an earth belonging to your spirit, and there is nothing after all but body and spirit.

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5 December 2024

He has told us that all are in His grip.

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4 December 2024

Nothing is more knowing than the intellect m, and nothing is more ignorant than the intellect. The intellect is something that needs to seek beneficial learning, always; thus, he is the knower whose knowledge is not known, and he is the ignorant whose ignorance never ends.

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3 December 2024

There is no lover and no beloved except God. There is in being only the Divine presence f, and She is His dhát,* and His adjectives, and His verbs.

* dhát: essence, core; essential identity

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2 December 2024

There is no site of being except God.

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28 November 2024

There is nothing in wujūd (being) except God.

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