The Sufi tradition is like a vast garden in which are cultivated many flowers of different scents and colors, each sweet and beautiful, each reflecting one aspect of the garden of paradise.

The more I gazeat Your face, the moremy eyes inclinetoward Your visionlike one who dies of thirstby the ocean shore,lips to the wave,thfrstier and thirstier.

The Lama‘at of Iraqi belongs to a particular type of Sufi literature in which the purest doctrines of gnosis (al-ma‘rifah) were expressed in the language of love (al-mahabbah).

To the eye of the true Witness, no more than One is to be seen – but since this One Face shows Itself in two mirrors,each mirror will display a different face. (p. 73)

Each image paintedon the canvas of existenceis the form of the artist himself.Eternal Oceanspews forth new waves.„Waves“ we call them;but there is only the Sea.(p. 77)

Majnun may gaze at Layla‘s beauty, but this Layla is only a mirror […] God with Majnun‘s eye looks upon His own beauty in Layla, and through Majnun He loves Himself.

If You are Everythingthen who are all these people?And if I am nothingwhat's all this noise about?You are Totality,everything is You. Agreed.Then that which is "other-than-You"-what is it?Oh, indeed I know:Nothing exists but You...

The more I gazeat Your face, the moremy eyes inclinetoward Your visionlike one who dies of thirstby the ocean shore,lips to the wave,thirstier and thirstier.