A Treasury of Sufi Wisdom by Peter Samsel

Author:Peter Samsel
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781936597529
Publisher: World Wisdom
Published: 2016-07-06T16:00:00+00:00

Fanā’-Baqā’ and the Shahādah

Foundational Sources

And call not upon another god with God; there is no god but He. Everything is perishing except His Face.

– Qur’ān 28:88

The truest verse sung by the Arabs is the line of Labīd, “Is not everything other than God unreal?”

– Ḥadīth[CHI/PK439]

Sufi Aphorisms

Only God has the right to say “I,” for whoever says “I” will not reach the level of gnosis.

– Abū Sa‘īd Aḥmad al-Kharrāz[SCH/MD55]

In that glory is no “I” or “We” or “Thou.” “I,” “We,” “Thou,” and “He” are all one thing.

– Ḥusayn Ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj[NIC/MI152]

True fanā’ is the vision of the relation of the worshipper to God Most Glorious, and true baqā’ is the vision of the relation of God to all worship.

– Ya‘qūb an-Nahrajūrī[SMI/SE215]

You are not veiled from God by the existence of something that exists with Him since there is nothing which exists with Him. You are veiled from Him by the illusion that something exists with Him.

– Ibn ‘Aṭā’ Allāh al-Iskandarī[ABD/DW52]

Adorn me with Your unity, clothe me with Your subjectivity, and take me up to Your oneness, until when Your creation sees me they say “We have seen You” and You will be that, and I will not be there.

– Bāyazīd al-Bisṭāmī[SEL/216]

Everything other than He is in the midst of three things: yesterday’s nonexistence, today’s lostness, and tomorrow’s naughtedness. Thus, all are nonexistent except for Him, yet existent through Him. Thus all are His Existence.

– Khwāja ‘Abd Allāh Anṣārī[NUR/SF113]

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