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“ ”No matter what people call you, you are just who you are. Keep to this truth. You must ask yourself how is it you want to live your life. We live and we die, this is the truth that we can only face alone. No one can help us. So consider carefully, what prevents you from living the way you want to live your life?
About Shams Tabrizi
Shams-e-Tabrīzī (or Shams al-Din Mohammad, literally: Sun of Islam; 1185–1248) was a Nizari Ismaili Iranian Sufi mystic, born in the city of Tabriz in Iranian Azerbaijan, who is credited as the spiritual instructor of Mewlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhi, also known as Rumi and is referenced with great reverence in Rumi's poetic collection, in particular Diwan-i Shams-i Tabrīzī (The Works of Shams of Tabriz). Tradition holds that Shams taught Rumi in seclusion in Konya for a period of forty days, before fleeing for Damascus. The tomb of Shams-i Tabrīzī was recently nominated to be a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Additional quotes by Shams Tabrizi
When I run after what I think I want,
my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety;
if I sit in my own place of patience,
what I need flows to me, and without pain.
From this I understand that
what I want also wants me,
is looking for me and attracting me.
There is a great secret here
for anyone who can grasp it.
God commands us
to pray in the direction of the Ka‘ba
Imagine this:
People all over the world are gathered making a circle around the Ka‘ba
They bow down in prayer
Now
imagine:
Remove the Ka‘ba
from the middle of the circle
Are they not prostrating toward one another?
They are bowing down toward each other’s hearts
أيها الأحبة ،لدى رفيق رائع،لدى مؤنس رائع، كان رجلا عجيبا،إنه محيي الدين بن عربي ، أما في المتابعة فلم يكن وفق الأصول،لم يكن لديه عين المتابعة ،هكذا كان. استفدت منه استفادة علمية و روحية كبيرة،كان دائما يقول أخطأ فلان،و بعدئذ كنت أشاهد أنه هو نفسه يخطئ،و مرات كثيرة كنت اذكر له أخطاءه،محيي الدين بن عربي ،العارف الكبير القليل النظير -أي نادر الشبه- يضطر إلى أن يطرق و يقول : أي بنى ،أتجلد بالسوط ؟