Abu al-Hassan al-Kharaqani Quotes

Continue spiritual practices till the spiritual practices themselves abandon you.

God bestows His anguish (Pain) on the enlightened one.

Everybody wants to take something to eternity from this world, but there is nothing in this that can find a passage there except egolessness.

There are some devotees of the Lord who are His beloveds. When they call Him by name, all the birds of air and beasts of the forest stand in silence whilst the angels in heaven shudder and the earth and the heaven and illuminated. Such is the majesty of the utterance of the Name by them that the earth stans quaking.

The greatest activity is the remembrance and recollection of the Lord and after that come, in order of preference, purity of life, charity and austerity.

When the Lord leads one to the Path, he dwells in the Plane of Unity with Him (Tawḥīd) and none expect God knows about his state.

When people seek the Lord with earnestness and are lost to themselves, God is met.

None could tread one step successfully in the Path without the help of the Lord. One could never succeed by one's personal effort and perseverance.

Dwell in the company of the Lord and forsake the company of the world because one should associate oneself with a friend and there is no friend superior to the Lord.

It is veils that wrap past, present and future time from your view. When the veils are withdrawn one can see all.

That Muslim is not praiseworthy who worships and keeps fasts, but he is to be praised in whose scroll of destiny no sin is recorded during the course of a lifetime. And when that stage is reached he fears God and maintains humility.

A Sufi does not need the light of the sun or the moon, for the Effulgence of the Lord is with him and it is brighter than that of all satellites.

He who sacrifices his honor for the sake of the Lord, the Lord thereafter cloaks him with the garment of His honor.

God's love claims him whose heart is reduced to ashes for Him.

Some of the friends of the Lord seated in the world can read the scroll of destiny.