Ibn al-Farid quotes

Ibn al-Farid quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“My request is not for bliss of the Garden. I only desire to see You.”
-- Ibn al-Farid

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“But for my sighs, I should be drowned by my tears; and but for my tears, I should be burned by my sighs.”
-- Ibn al-Farid

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“Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.”
“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.”
“O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They can bring you neither benefit nor harm. If you rely on them and associate partners with the Lord of the Truth, they will make you distant from Him, cause you to fall into His displeasure.”
“Never break a Muslim's heart by refusing what he offers you, when you know that anything that comes to you through him is in reality from Allah, and he is only His powerless and compelled means.”
“Someone who seeks to travel the path of Allah should begin with a sound repentance from all his sins.”
“The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.”
“I studied adab for thirty years and I studied knowledge for twenty years.”
“Be content with what you have Be satisfied with your dwelling place to accommodate your enterprise, Restrain your tongue, And shed tears of regret regarding past sins you committed knowingly, and those you do not recognize.”
“As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.”
“It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.”

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