100+ Abdelkader El Djezairi Quotes

The diurnal sun sets at night, but the sun of the heart never disappears.

Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.

source: - "The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations". Edited by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 79, 1882.

Topics: Death, Black, Camels, Arabian

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.

Topics: Knowledge, Degrees, Awareness, Paraphrased, Illusory

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.'

Topics: 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.

Topics: Horse, Wind, Want, Inspirational Horse, Great Horse

By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.

Topics: 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.

Topics: Time, Expression, Limits, Designation, Allusion

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.

Topics: Time, Writing, Perceive, Designation

The pleasure and the love of God for His creatures constitute the original state. His pleasure and love are the means by which He has brought His creatures into existence and are the cause of that bringing into existence. He who knows that he possesses neither being nor act rediscovers himself in that original state of pleasure and divine love.

Topics: Love, Mean, Causes

If the divine Mercy grants him the knowledge of himself, then his adoration will be pure; and, for him, paradise and hell, recompense, spiritual degrees and all created things will be as though God had never created them. He will not accord them any importance, nor will he take them into consideration, except to the extent that it is prescribed by the divine Law and Wisdom. For then he will know Who is the sole Agent.

Topics: Spiritual, Wisdom, Law, Divine Law, Divine Mercy

Turn your face toward the sacred Mosque (Koran 2:144,149,150) Commentary: The word "sacred" means that a heart which has not disengaged itself from the sphere of the soul and the sphere of created beings is forbidden to penetrate into this place. . . . "Wherever you are, turn your face" [toward the sacred Mosque] means, "Wherever you are, in the accomplishment of works of worship or in the ordinary acts of life, contemplate Him - in what you eat, in what you drink, in him or her whom you marry, always knowing that He is at once the Contemplator and the Contemplated. . . ."

Topics: Life, Heart, Mean, Always Knowing

But, in conformity to His wisdom it was right that afterwards the Prophet should be sent back from the vision of pure Unity and that he should return . . . toward the separative vision. For, He created man and jinn only that they should worship Him and know Him - and, if they remained at the degree of pure Unity, there would be none to worship Him. In this separative vision, the Worshipped and the worshipper, the Lord and the servant, the Creator and the creature are again perceived.

Topics: Men, Unity, Vision, Jinn

O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.

Topics: People, Heaven, Earth

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

Topics: Wise, Learning, Growth, Personal Growth And Development, Personal Influence

The first "station of separation" corresponds to the state of the ordinary man who perceives the universe as distinct from God. Starting from here, the initiatic itinerary leads the being first to extinction in the divine Unity, which abolishes all perception of created things. But spiritual realization, if it is complete, arrives afterwards at the "second station of separation" where the being perceives simultaneously the one in the multiple and the multiple in the one.

Topics: Spiritual, Men, Unity, Ordinary Man

Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.

Topics: Men, Friendly, Littles, Spaniels, Fawns

It is with a word as with an arrow--once let it loose and it does not return.

Topics: Arrows, Doe, Return

The other world is as to this like the east to the west. We cannot approach the one without turning away from the other.

Topics: Other Worlds, East, West

There are two kinds of death, the death which is inevitable and common to all beings, and the death which is voluntary and particular to certain ones of them only. It is the second death which is prescribed for us in the words of the Messenger of Allah: "Die before you die." The resurrection is accomplished for him who dies this voluntary death. His affairs return to God and they are but one. He has returned to God and he sees Him through Him. As the Prophet said - on him be Grace and Peace!

Topics: Peace, Two, Grace, Turn To God

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