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It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come.
Shams Tabrizi
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Shams Tabrizi
Age: 63 †
Born: 1185
Born: January 1
Died: 1248
Died: January 1
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Shams-e Tabrizi
Shams-i Tabrizi
Shams ad-Din Muhammad
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The salat can be made up for, but there is no making up for false show or outward worship without presence.
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Instead of resisting to changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think ‘My life will be upside down’ don’t worry. How do you know down is not better than upside?
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Love is a travel. All travelers whether they want or not are changed. No one can travel into love and remain the same.
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The path to the Truth is a labour of the heart, not of the head. Make your heart your primary guide! Not your mind. Meet, challenge and ultimately prevail over your nafs with your heart. Knowing your ego will lead you to the knowledge of God.
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The universe is a complete unique entity. Everything and everyone is bound together with some invisible strings. Do not break anyone’s heart do not look down on weaker than you. One’s sorrow at the other side of the world can make the entire world suffer one’s happiness can make the entire world smile.
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If you are insulted, if you are accused, if they gossip about you, don't say anything bad. Don't be the one who sees the shame, be the one who corrects it.
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Do not worry about tricks and cheaters. If some people are trying to trap and hurt you, Allah is also trapping them. Hole diggers will always fall in their holes. No bad remains unpunished, and no good remains without being awarded, so have faith in justice and let the rest be.
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Remove all the walls and curtains so you can get closer and purely love. Have principles but do not use them to exclude or to judge the others. Stay far from idols, specially from those you made from your own principles. Have a powerful faith, but do not play the powerful.
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If you expect respect from others, show it first to yourself. You can't expect from others what you don't give to yourself.
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When you oppose the shaykh, it's like the slave who kills himself over a quarrel with his master. 'Hey, why are you killing yourself over a quarrel?' He says, 'So my master will suffer loss.'
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Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart.
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Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.
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A good man complains of no one he does not look to faults.
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To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart.
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Whoever lives as he sees fit will not die as he sees fit.
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Don't search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in hell.
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For anew Self to be born, hardship is necessary. Just as clay needs to go through intense heat to become strong, Love can only be perfected in pain.
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We can only learn and advance with contradictions. The faithful inside should meet the doubtful. The doubtful should meet the faithful. Human slowly advances and becomes mature when he accepts his contradictions.
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Being the companion of the folk of this world is fire. There must be an Abraham if the fire is not going to burn [you].
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Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.
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