Sufism is to eat little and to take rest with God, and to f… - Sahl al-Tustari

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

Sahl al-Tustari

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Sahl al-Tustarī (c.818– 896) was a Persian Sunni Muslim scholar and early classical Sufi mystic. He founded the Salimiyah Muslim theological school, which was named after his disciple Muhammad ibn Salim.

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Alternative Names: Abū Muḥammad Sahl al-Tustarī • Sahl al-Tustarī • Sahl Shushtarī

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When God created the world, He placed sin and ignorance within satisfication of the appetite and knowledge and wisdom withing hunger. When Sahl hungered he was powerful, and whenever he ate, he became weak.

The utmost degree of gnosis is dismay and perplexity.

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

Sufism is to eat little and to take rest with God, and to flee from men. - Sahl al-Tustari

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