Every religion has a mystical branch, the Sufi's are the mystics of Islam.

They seek to remove (or not be controlled by ) ego ( nafs).

Why, because they seek union with Beloved.

The first time I read Rumi's poetry, I knew I had found my place.

Rumi, Attar, Jilani,etc, all lovers of Allah ( God) and lovers of humanity.


Wonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving.
It doesn't matter.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vow

a thousand times
Come, yet again, come, come.
~Rumi

Rumi's poem reminds me of the call to prayer.
The call to Remember Allah ( God),

Come to the prayer.

Come to the prayer.

Come to success.

Come to success.

God is Supreme! God is Supreme!

There is no god but God

It says to me :
Come back, come sinner, come lover, come
back to God, remember God, worship God

Alhamdu lillah ( All praise to God )

Peace

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Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do ~Rumi

Thanks for sharing this.

Thank you this is beautiful.

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You've no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring
You. nothing seemed right. What's the point of bringing gold
to the gold mine, or water to the Ocean. Everything I came
up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It's no good
giving my heart and my soul because you already have these.
So- I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and
remember me.
~Jalaluddin Rumi

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Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do ~Rumi

Love is the Water of Life Everything other than love for the most beautiful God is agony of the spirit, though it be sugar- eating.

What is agony of the spirit?

To advance toward death without seizing hold of the Water of Life.
~ Rumi

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Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do ~Rumi

Turn towards that which transcends direction.
-Rumi

O God! If I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell,
and if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise.
But if I worship You for Your Own sake
grudge me not Your Everlasting Beauty.
- Rabia al Basri

One Voice,

I love Rabia. She was truly a lover of God.
Sold into slavery , she never stopped loving God.
Everything I have read about her shows she was an amazing Sufi woman.

Thanks for sharing that with us.

Peace

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Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do ~Rumi

If you wish to shine like the daylight,
burn up the night of self-importance.

Dissolve the self like copper in the elixir;
dissolve in Him who fosters all existence.

But you are bound by the discord of "I" and "We."
The cause of your ruin is this sad dualism.

-Rumi, "Mathnawi"

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Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do ~Rumi

In the dead of night, a Sufi began to weep.
He said, "This world is like a closed coffin, in which
We are shut and in which, through our ignorance,
We spend our lives in folly and desolation.
When Death comes to open the lid of the coffin,
Each one who has wings will fly off to Eternity,
But those without will remain locked in the coffin.
So, my friends, before the lid of this coffin is taken off,
Do all you can to become a bird of the Way to God;
Do all you can to develop your wings and your feathers."

Farid ud Din Attar