Sufi quotes in the month of Ramzan
- O Marvel! a garden amidst the flames.
My heart has become capable of every form:
it is a pasture for gazelles and a convent for Christian monks,
and a temple for idols and the pilgrim’s Kaa’ba,
and the tables of the Torah and the book of the Quran.
I follow the religion of Love: whatever way Love’s camels take,
that is my religion and my faith. - All that is left
to us by tradition
is mere words. It is up to us
to find out what they mean. - Were it not for
the excess of your talking
and the turmoil in your hearts,
you would see what I see
and hear what I hear! - When my Beloved appears, With what eye do I see Him? With His eye, not with mine, For none sees Him except Himself.
- Rabia of Bashra, as she told of her journey to Mecca: -“I see only bricks and a house of stone;
What do they profit me?
‘Tis Thou that I want.”
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