Faqir Quotes

أنتِ محظوظة لأنكِ وُلدتِ مسلمة ، لأن مأواك الأخير هو الجنّة . سوف تجلسين هناك في سحابة من عطر ، وتحتسين الحليب والعسل

You don't liberate a country standing on the soil of another.

Her tears were not for public consumption, she used to say. (216)

Here we are! Shooting stars. Shooting stars? They burn. Fleeting glimpse. We become human as we fall.

A single slim trunk Branches that bow in a storm Green, leathery leaves with a soft centre Glittering against blue sky White bark scarred, bleeding Heart wide-open Bandaged, but upright she stands... (225)

الكتب، يا سلمى، هي عزاؤنا الوحيد. كيف يمكننا أن نسامح وننسى من دون كتب ؟

What is this thing that makes us human? Birth, heartbreak, a desire for safety and order? Is it anger, shame, or fear? What we desire is unattainable and although we know it, we keep striving for it. Sisyphus, the Greek god, and all that.

How did I find myself here? Me—the man who wanted to walk around the world? On foot, no less. I wanted to be Passepartout, a traveller with little luggage, hopping from one train to another, a Thomas Cook, an Ibn Battuta. Where is Xanadu?

How did I find myself here? Me—the man who wanted to walk around the world? On foot, no less. I wanted to be Passepartout, a traveller with little luggage, a Thomas Cook, an Ibn Battuta. Where is Xanadu?

I lived in my head most of the time— a lonely and messed up place —and suddenly there was a higher force called Allah I could lean on. A companion, who'd travel with me this road less trodden... My life. Islam means surrendering yourself to God.

Always give before you receive.

Never ever lower yourself for money.

Control your mind or it will control you

In the maze of her tattered fantasies, she uttered the dua of Prophet Musa alaihis salam, the prayer that changed his life, hoping it would have the same impact on hers. Rabbi inni lima anzalta ilayya min khairin faqir - My Lord, I am in absolute need of the good You send me. For her Rabb was Generous, and she desperately needed any goodness He sent her way. She didn’t know what it was, but she trusted her Lord to give her that which He thought was good.

In reality the Spirit of Guidance may be pictured as one thread; and all the great masters of humanity are like the beads on that thread. One spirit and many individualities; one soul and many personalities; one wisdom and many teachers who have expounded wisdom according to their own personality. But at the same time, wisdom always being one, they cannot be compared with different scientists. For scientists, when they have discovered something new, say they have made a new discovery; but the prophets have never said that they had made a new discovery. They have always said, “What those who came before me perceived I perceive, and those who come after thousands of years will perceive the same.” Yet in spite of that it is always new, for every moment has its new joy. As Hafiz says, “Sing, my soul, a new song that every new moment inspires in you.” Once the soul awakens, it begins to see that truth is always new and renews the soul, giving it perpetual youth. When one finds differences between the teachers of humanity, these are only in the lives they lived. But no matter what their life was, whether they were kings or faqirs, whether they walked or rode on an elephant’s back, whether they were on a throne or in mountain caves or in deserts, they all had the same experience: realization. They might appear to be comfortable and rejoicing, but they heard the same note which others heard in tortures. Those who were kings such as Solomon and David, and those who were sages such as Krishna and Buddha, all these different souls had the same realization, the same philosophy. There could never be an argument if they were all to meet. But they are not meant to meet because they are all one. It was the Spirit of Guidance which manifested through all these different names and forms.