Love Quotes -By Moulana Sheikh Nazim (Qd)
Love is the Religion, Love is the Way
For the Honour of our Lord, Lord of Heavens, Lord of Love. It (This Love) is a small drop from the oceans of endless Love Oceans. Love that is the reason for Creation! We must use it first for our Creator and then His creatures. Love is Our Religion. - Moulana Sheikh Nazim
Our Way is the Way of Love. Leave what is keeping you from following that Path and turn to follow it with perseverance; follow this path all the way to your destination.
- Moulana Sheikh Nazim
Without love there is no taste within faith. In every religion love is the first power. When you love you will respect and you will follow. You cannot follow anyone without love.
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That Divine Love must be tasted. As much as I may repeat the words: "Honey, honey, honey... or describe the characteristics and flavour of honey, you are not going to taste it, not going to be satisfied. These realities must be tasted, and unless you have reached that point you cannot understand more than these words.
-Moulana Sheikh Nazim
One of the greatest Saints was Rabia at Adawiyya. We call her Rabia Sultana, because she was dressed in the robes of the Sultan. She used to address the Lord: "Oh my Lord, I am not coming to You because I am eager to get into Your paradise. I am also not coming to You because I am afraid of hell. I am free of that. I come to You through my love for You. You are the only One I can give myself to with full love" (in order to be close to you)
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Don't pray to ask your Lord for more paradise and favors. No. Try to free yourself from that desire. Love your Lord, and ask only for His please-ment.
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Glorifying Allah with the knowledge of his Beauty leads to Loving him
Souls can only be fed by Nur, Divine Lights. There is no need for eating and drinking; their food is Lights. Everyone's soul is in need of Light.If there are no Lights, there is no Love. If Allah's Beauty Oceans can't be seen (and known), no Love comes to His servants. Souls know that, and therefore they are asking for those Divine Lights. Through them, those Oceans become visible, and souls should be satisfied.
- Moulana Sheikh Nazim
Angels glorify their Lord without tiring: it is their food. So the power of one Angel is more than the power of all mankind. It is a special power spiritual people, Prophets and Saints, have it. Glorifying the Lord gives you energy and peace, more power and support, and more love for Allah. Real life comes from that Divine Love. When there is no Love, there is no life. The Awliya (Saints) say that whoever doesn't have that Love is like a dead body walking on earth. Love is life and light, and the more we have of it, the more our life will be complete and full of pleasure.
- Moulana Sheikh Nazim
The Warm & Gentle Sea that Draws us to the Source
The Lord beckons us through a Divine love and attraction which has been implanted in our hearts, a love that maybe understood and felt consciously as Divine by some, and only indirectly as love for His creatures or creation by others. In either case the pull of our heartstrings draws us to those mercy Oceans, just as our physical bodies feel drawn to a warm and gentle sea.
- Moulana Sheikh Nazim
The Goal of Love is Union with the Beloved
The Lord is beckoning us to enter that Ocean of Unity while we are yet in this life, to dissolve as sugar dissolves in tea.When the sugar dissolves you can no longer say, "This is sugar and this is tea"
- Moulana Sheikh Nazim
You have been given one drop of love, one drop of existence from the Lord. Try to give it back to the endless ocean of love and existence: the unity oceans of Allah. You will be in the ocean and cannot ever be taken out into loneliness again.
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You are burning. And what burns you is love, or it is fire!
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Endless Love Oceans
Allah Almighty is preparing man with an ability, or capability, or capacity, to drink endlessly from the love oceans of Allah Almighty, never saying that it should be enough. Every time that he is drinking from the love oceans of the Lord Almighty Allah, he is getting much thirstier, never getting to be satisfied. But his thirst is not like our thirst for water, because when we are thirsty, we are going to be in a kind of misery. A kind of unrest comes over us until we drink, our feeling is difficult we are asking to drink. But those who are drinking from the oceans of love of Allah Almighty, they are growing up with full taste and full enjoyment, and are asking for much more enjoyment.
The Longing for the Beloved
If you do not notice nearness (to the beloved) and do not notice it coming nearer, if your soul does not ask daily for the beloved, nothing has happened. You are playing. You are wasting your time.
- Moulana Sheikh Nazim
Longing for the attainment of the spiritual realities of which you have caught a glimpse is the means to their attainment.
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The Hard parth of a Lover
Is there any morsel tastier than that upon which the fast is broken? This is the reason that Allah Almighty created the world as it is.
- Moulana Sheikh Nazim
Know that the discontinuation of any desirable state or condition is the catalyst for gaining an even deeper appreciation of what is good.
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Allah's Mercy has left a door open, One door. This door is for those who, without having asked (not out of compulsion) and without knowing why, are seized by the Love of God and by the desire to know Him, although it is like trying to hold a glowing coal in your hand.
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All manner of events may occur: lovely people may die, young people may die, brothers, parents, wives and husbands may die, will die, must die. Everyone you love will die. Then He looks to see what you will do: Can you transform your love and make tragedy a cause of increasing your love for your Lord? So few people understand this, and that is why they can't see the Divine Wisdom in sorrowful events. They don't recognize that our Lord is beckoning us to love Him wholly and exclusively; therefore they suffer.
- Moulana Sheikh Nazim
At any time sorrowful and unliked events may (and will) descend upon you. Your Lord makes them a means to approach to Him that He may pour out everlasting Love Oceans on His beloved servants.
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The Final Destiny of Man
A holy man said to the Sultan (king) of Holiness: "I drank a cup of Divine Love and I lost myself. Nothing else has a taste for me anymore. I'm drunk with the taste of love for Allah and the taste is never ending in me".
So Abu Yazid at Bistami, the King of Saints, heard this and said: -"I'm also drinking, but I'm never getting enough. I'm asking for more and more and more. I'm never satisfied and I'm in endless sweetness and refreshment of the lovestreams. It gives me more refreshment and my body h getting younger and fresher and more alive. I'm not (fitting older, but younger. I'm not approaching death, I refuse to die. My body does not accept death. Death is escaping from me. Death runs after people who have not tasted the real love of the Lord Almighty. We, who have tasted and reached the lovestreams, never die".
They have an everlasting life. They will reach the One they are in love with. He is preparing a special world for them, a private life. There you will be like a shadow amongst people while your real being will be in a distinguished private world of your own. No stranger can come inside. There are no partners in that world of love. Everything there gives you true love and everything takes true love through you. You will be like a spring of love in that world.
- Moulana Sheikh Nazim
You are the most important creature. You must respect Divine Love more than any other creature. You Mankind is the most important representative of Heavenly Love. You must be fountains of love, or springs of love, or taps of love, or rivers of love, or seas of love, or oceans of love. Can a person be an ocean of love? Why not?
- Moulana Sheikh Nazim