Sari al-Saqati Quotes

To meet people with hypocrisy separates one from God.

Every nearest to Divine presence is given spiritual acumen in proportion to his proximity to Divine sanctuary.

O God! Whatever punishment you inflict upon me, do not punish me with the humiliation of being veiled from Thee.

The entire world is worthless excepting five things: to eat for survival, to take water in order to slake thirst, clothes to cover body, house to dwell in, knowledge just to act upon.

One should avoid rich neighbour, rich savant, and Quran reader on payment.

In his youth he would say: "One should worship Him in his youth."

Gnostic has an elevated spiritual rank. He eats less, sleeps less and repose less. He is like shinning moon who radiates others and bears the burden of everything on earth, shows right path like light and saturates the heart like water giving it new life.

He who meditates into the mysteries of the Holy Quran is sagacious in true sense.

Sinning upto necessity might be pardonable but for self-conceit and pride it is unpardonable since sin of Adam was the accomplishment of desire and sin of Satan self-conceit.

Gnostic gets peace after annihilation in Him.

The genuine mystic dwells in the state of unity.

He who cannot bridle his own lower soul, how can he purify the same of others.

The worst punishment from God is the separation from Him.