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Islamic Scholar Inspirational Quotes (1128)

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There is no salvation for the soul but to fall in love.
Rumi
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For young people, if someone tells you: you are the future - say No! I'm the present. You have things to do right now.
Hamza Yusuf
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You've been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, and deeper under, a thousand times deeper!
Rumi
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This is a gathering of Lovers. In this gathering there is no high, no low, no smart, no ignorant, no special assembly, no grand discourse, no proper schooling required. There is no master, no disciple. This gathering is more like a drunken party, full of tricksters, fools, mad men and mad women. This is a gathering of Lovers.
Rumi
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Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination loves to watch. But it's a mistake to leave the fire for that filmy sight. Stay here at the flame's core.
Rumi
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The vast majority of Muslims would never accept the lawfulness of an active homosexual lifestyle. I don't see that happening. But there is also no authority in the tradition for any individual to take things into his own hands and impose their version of the religion on someone else.
Hamza Yusuf
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I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks.
Rumi
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I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness.
Rumi
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Empathy is even better than talking in one language
Rumi
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The world is like a courtroom, with God as our judge. We are called upon to fulfill our covenant with God, who asked, Am I not your Lord? To which we answered, Yea. And since here on earth we are on trial, our every word and action form the witness to and the evidence of that agreement.
Rumi
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Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings.... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full.
Rumi
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Whether you love God or you love a human being, if you love enough you will come into the presence of Love itself.
Rumi
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If the wine drinker has a deep gentleness in him, he will show that when drunk. But if he has hidden anger and arrogance, those appear.
Rumi
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Last night I begged the Wise One to tell me the secret of the world. Gently, gently, he whispered, Be quiet, the secret cannot be spoken, It is wrapped in silence.
Rumi
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When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying again and again, this is certainly not like we thought it was.
Rumi
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Let the Beloved be a hat pulled down firmly on my head.
Rumi
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I am a bird of God's garden and I do not belong to this dusty world For a day or two they have put me here in this cage of my own body I did not come here of my own I will not return of my own to my own country.
Rumi
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Let lovers be crazy, disgraceful and wild Those who fret about such things Aren’t in love.
Rumi
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Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness
Rumi
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This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.
Rumi
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Light the incense! You have to burn to be fragrant.
Rumi
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When paying charity, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand.
Hamza Yusuf
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My religion is to be alive from LOVE.
Rumi
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If Islam is not making you happy, then something is wrong with your Islam
Hamza Yusuf
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