It is illicit for the heart to smell the scent of certainty while contentment with other-than-God dwells therein. - Sahl al-Tustari

The first station of trust in God is that servant be between the hands of God exactly as the dead body is between the hands of the one who washes the dead.

Sufism is to eat little and to take rest with God, and to flee from men.

Love consists in embracing acts of obedience and in avoiding acts of disobedience which implies that the devotee of God develops his kinship with God as he merges his will in His will and avoids that which is forbidden by Him.