First Thought

If you want dervish hood, spiritual poverty, and emptiness, you must be friends with a sheikh. Talking about it, reading books, and doing practices don't help. Soul receives from soul that knowing

~ Hazrat Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi r.a

If you are possessed of discernment joined with knowledge, seek the company of the dervishes and become one with them. Love for the dervishes is the key which opens the door into Paradise. The Dervish's garment is nothing but a patched robe, and he is not led astray by earthly desires and passions.

~ Farid al-Din'Attar

Second Thought

The Holy Quran :: Translation by Abdullah Yusuf Ali ::.

Muhammad is not the father of any of your men, but (he is) the Messenger of Allah, and the Seal of the Prophets: and Allah has full knowledge of all things. O ye who believe! Celebrate the praises of Allah, and do this often; And glorify Him morning and evening. He it is Who sends blessings on you, as do His angels, that He may bring you out from the depths of Darkness into Light: and He is Full of Mercy to the Believers. Their salutation on the Day they meet Him will be “Peace” and He has prepared for them a generous Reward. O Prophet! Truly We have sent thee as a Witness, a Bearer of Glad Tidings, and Warner, And as one who invites to Allah's (grace) by His leave, and as a lamp spreading light.
Then give the Glad Tidings to the Believers that they shall have from Allah a very great Bounty.

~ Surah Al Ahzâb - The Clans, The Coalition 33: 40-47

O ye who believe! Turn to Allah with sincere repentance: In the hope that your Lord will remove from you your ills and admit you to Gardens beneath which Rivers flow, - the Day that Allah will not permit to be humiliated the Prophet and those who believe with him. Their Light will run forward before them and by their right hands, while they say, “Our Lord! Perfect our Light for us, and grant us Forgiveness: for Thou hast power over all things.”

~ Surah At Tahrîm - Banning, Prohibition 66:8

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Dear friend, your heart is a polished mirror.
You must wipe it clean of the veil of dust which has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets. When the light from Allah, (Who) is the light of the heavens and the earth begins to shine upon the regions of your heart, the lamp of the heart will be lit. It is your private sun, for you are the one whom Allah guides... 

~ Hazrat Abdu'l-Qadir Al-Gilani (r.a) 

Never be without remembrance of Him,for His remembrancegives strength and wingsto the bird of the Spirit.If that objective of yours is fully realized, that is" Light upon Light "...

... But at the very least, bypracticing God’s remembranceyour inner being will be illuminated little by little and you will achievesome measure of detachment from the world. 

~ Hazrat Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi (r.a) 

There is a great difficulty in knowing God because His brightness is too much for the heart of man to bear. Man knows the extraordinary brightness of the sun, which reveals all things, yet if the earth did not revolve around the sun causing night, or if shade did not veil it, no one would know that light exists. He is hidden by His brightness.

~ Ahmed al-Ghazzali

Tis light makes color visible; at night
Red, green, and russet vanish from thy sight,
So too, the light by darkness is made known,
All hid things by their contraries are shown.

~ Hazrat Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi r.a

My Roshanee with still silent elegant grace walks into my being
Sanity once drained refilled regained
She shows me the path to the truth in unimaginable ways
As I am crushed with gratefulness my eyes fill up...
A strange desire sweeps through me
Sweet smells drown my senses
I hope and pray that maybe one day
Due to this immense generosity bestowed upon me
By the blessed souls chain that leads to you -The beyond
Make me worthy to have lived this part of the journey to eternity,
For the sake of the blessed souls
Whose lives touched this wayward mortal and made me whole.

~ fm

Overwhelm me completely
My life, my love, my murshid
As I gaze forward to increasing light and hope
You take me from the opalescent
To translucent, to luminous, to you

How I wish the day arrive
when you overwhelm me completely
When you haunt my every thought
As I lose track of time and space
All visible colors begin and end in you
All senses perceived hum a single tune
The night shadows reveal you in each turn
Limitless stars illuminate the night sky each star was you
Sunbeam's radiance the colorful gamut all amplify you

Till such a day arrive
Ashamed to ask of your attention
Hopefully sooner than later the day arrive
To be worthy of your prayers
I live to reach such a time

~ fm