My heart is scattered across a thousand roads; the paths pull at it as winds tug at a small boat upon a shoreless sea. At times it moves with people in the clamour of life, and at times it withdraws from them into a dense silence, as though it were a night without stars. I… Continue reading Reminder: My heart is scattered across a thousand roads

A single glorification from my lips can fill the space between heaven and earth, and a single praise can fill the Scale; and both increase in light and splendour in the month of Ramadan, when lights are multiplied, souls are refined, and bodies grow lighter so that hearts may ascend. How exalted is my rank… Continue reading Reminder: The dominion of the world and all that it contains is but a disgrace to me

When the egg hatches and the chick emerges, it passes from the narrow confines of its shell into the breadth of life, entering a new stage in which its powers unfold and its limbs grow complete. Its faculties develop gradually, its movements strengthen little by little, until its wings appear, wings by which it may… Continue reading Reminder: When the egg hatches

My neighbour said to me one morning, as he stood contemplating my face for some time: “Why do I see you today radiant of countenance, your brow aglow, a light in your eyes I have not known before? Only yesterday you seemed near to withering, your movements subdued, your vigour spent. And now you appear… Continue reading Reminder: I am a flower, and I rejoice in the spring

Do not exalt yourself, for there is no servant whose record is free of both good deeds and sins. All sins arise from the stirrings of the soul and the following of its desires, whilst all good deeds are from the grace of God and His enabling. Had God willed, He could have forsaken you… Continue reading Reminder: Do not praise yourself

My soul said to me: I long to enter the Garden of Bliss. I replied: A noble longing indeed. To aspire to God’s mercy is an elevation, and to hope in His bounty is an act of worship. Yet the Garden has a clear path; it is not traversed by wishful thinking, nor attained by… Continue reading Reminder: I long to enter the garden of bliss

I saw one praying eight rakʿahs of tarāwīḥ and said, “He is lazy.” I saw another praying twenty and said, “He hastens and does not recite properly.” I saw one bare-headed and said, “He is far from the way of the righteous.” I saw another wearing a turban and said, “He is showing off and… Continue reading Reminder: I am not the master of the day of judgement