In The Name of Al-Ahad: The Singleton Being Whose Oneness requires no
numbers, Who is One even if there is nothing or no one else to count,
and all sense of `being one' stems from ITs Oneness


Kharqaani's quotes from Tadh-keratol Aulia (Remembering the Friends of
Allah) by Faridud-din Attar
http://www.untiredwithloving.org/kharqaani_qoutes1.html
Divan: http://www.untiredwithloving.org/kharqaani.html

These are luminous collection of quotes from an illiterate Persian
Sufi living some 1000 years ago. Sheikh Attar has preserved his
breakthrough words for generations to come.

Samples:

I have made peace with Allah's creation and never fought with people,
yet I have declared war upon my own Nafs (Self, Psyche) and I shall
never make peace with it.

A Nedaa (Calling) from Allah came: My slave! If you come to Me with
sorrow I shall give you happiness and if you come to Me with need I
shall enrich you, for as long as you wash your hands from your own
kind (have no hope of help from them) I shall subjugated the air and
the water (i.e. the entire creation) to your will.

There is no loving (for That Beloved) if even a little shameful
thought may appear within the mind that requires seeking forgiveness.

Muslims can be benefit from these words to rupture the chrysalis of
cliché habitual rituals and fly freely into the meanings behind them.

Non-Msulim Westerners can benefit by traversing beyond the false veil
of financial might and intoxicating consumerism into a station where
there is Hu and no one else.

--DARA The Eyeless Lion