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Sufi Principles
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Sufi Guide and Teacher
It is necessary to have a guide
for the spiritual journey. Choose a master, for without one
this journey is full of trials, fears, and dangers. With no
escort, you would be lost on a road you have already taken. Do
not travel alone on the path.
Rumi
In the
spiritual journey, whoever travels without a guide, needs
two-hundred years for a two-day journey.
Rumi
He stood me in a place, saying
Who are you and who am I?
I saw the sun, moon, stars, and all the lights
He said to me
In my sea stream nothing remains you have not seen
Everything came toward me -
Nothing remained that did not -
Kissed me between the eyes
Blessed me
And stayed in the shadow
He said
You know me but I know you not
I saw him clinging to my robe not me
He said to me
This is my devotion
I did not incline
Only my robe
Inclined He said
Who am I?
Sun and Moon were veiled
The stars fell
The lights died out
All save he enveloped in darkness
My eye did not see
My ear did not hear
My perception failed
Everything spoke saying
Allahu Akbar!
Came toward me lance in hand
He said to me: Flee!
I said: Where?
He said
Fall into the darkness
I fell into the darkness
And beheld myself
He said
Behold yourself only yourself forever
Never will you leave the darkness
But when I release you from it
I will reveal myself
You will see me
And when you do
You will be the farthest of those most far"
Mystical Union in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam' - Moshe
Idel & Bernard McGinn
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