The Centrality of Love and Devotion on the Spiritual Journey

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The Centrality of Love and Devotion in Sufism

 

 

 

James Bean spiritualawakeningatonelist@h...

 

Without Love There Is Nothing

 

 

With the eye of love you will see the face of the King,

for his Light pervades from one end of the world

to the other. (Hafiz)

 

 

In the court of the Lord, an ounce of love

weights more than tons of religious faith. (Sultan Bahu)

 

 

Within us abides our Murshid --

I learnt this when I fell in love.

My logic, my grammar, my polemics --

all my knowledge proved futile. (Bulleh Shah)

 

 

You will only meet the unrivalled Beloved

when you offer your head on the altar of his love.

Then, in an ecstasy of love,

you will repeat the Name of HU constantly. (Sultan Bahu)

 

 

Were my Beloved to bestow but one glance on me,

not one, but a hundred lives, if I had them,

would I sacrifice to him. (Rumi)

 

 

Scholars renounce their 'superior' learning, O Bahu,

when they learn the prayer of love. (Sultan Bahu)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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