Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes
Fakhruddin Iraqi
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Each image painted on the canvas of existence is the form of the artist himself. Eternal Ocean spews forth new waves. „Waves“ we call them; but there is only the Sea. (p. 77)”
“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)”
“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 Everything then who are all these people? And if I am nothing what'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 ...”
“When Ibn al-Arabi and his followers speak of „Being,“ they do not mean the Being of God as opposed to that of the creatures, or vice versa. They mean Being as such, in all the forms it may take, without exception. For them the „science of Being“ is the science of all sciences, since nothing but Being is. If someone can understand this science, he has understood the principle of everything. To grasp the nature of Being Itself is to grasp the nature of all that exists. „Love“ is one of the primary attributes of Being, which means that whatever exists must participate in it, just as it must participate in Being. To understand the nature of Love and its myriad self-manifestations is to grasp the nature of Being Itself, for the two are in fact one. (p. 27)”
“The more I gaze at Your face, the more my eyes incline toward Your vision like one who dies of thirst by the ocean shore, lips to the wave, thirstier and thirstier.”
“The more I gaze at Your face, the more my eyes incline toward Your vision like one who dies of thirst by the ocean shore, lips to the wave, thfrstier and thirstier.”
“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 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).”
“Love courses through all things. . . . No, It is all things. How deny It when nothing else exists? What has appeared – if not for Love – would not have been. All has appeared from Love, through Love, and Love courses through it. . . . No, all of it is Love. (p. 84)”
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