Abdelkader El Djezairi Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“The diurnal sun sets at night, but the sun of the heart never disappears.”
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi

#Heart #Night #Sun

“Fear that man who fears not God.”
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi

#Fear #Men #Glory

“Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.”
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi

#Death #Black #Camels

“Paraphrased: Among the degrees of the universal Manifestation, each sentient creature typically experiences an illusory sense of autonomy. At the same time, with or without the creature's awareness, the creature subsists eternally as an "immutable prototype" in the divine Knowledge.”
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi

#Knowledge #Degrees #Awareness

“Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.'”
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi

#Opposites #May #Als

“When God wanted to create the horse, he said to the South Wind, "I want to make a creature of you. Condense." And the Wind condensed.”
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi

#Horse #Wind #Want

“By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.”
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi

#Horse #Majestic #Palaces

“The absolutely Non-Manifested cannot be designated by any expression which could limit It, Separate It, or include It. In spite of this, every allusion alludes only to Him, every designation designates Him, and He is at the same time the Non-Manifested and the Manifested.”
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi

#Time #Expression #Limits

“Allah is in Himself the non-being and the being, the inexistent and the existent. He is at the same time that which we designate by absolute non-being and by absolute being; or by relative non-being and relative being. . . . All these designation come back to God alone, for there is nothing which we can perceive, know, write or say which is not Him.”
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi

#Time #Writing #Perceive