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1 " Once Ibrahim bin Adham saw a stone with the inscription, "Turn me over and read!" When he did an inscription appeared: "You do not practice what you know. Why do you seek what you do not know? "
― Ali bin Uthman Al-Hujwiri
2 " 415There is a difference between the one who is burned by His majesty in the fire of love and one who is illuminated by His beauty in the light of contemplation. "
3 " There is a difference between the one who is burned by His majesty in the fire of love and one who is illuminated by His beauty in the light of contemplation. "
4 " God so willed that the pearl of His love should be set in the shell of popular contempt and be cast into the sea of affliction, in order that those who seek it may hazard their lives on account of its preciousness and dive to the bottom of this ocean of death, where they will either win their desire or bring their mortal state to an end. "
― Ali bin Uthman Al-Hujwiri , Kashf Al-Mahjub: The Revelation of the Veiled: An Early Persian Treatise on Sufism
