Abu al-Hassan al-Kharaqani

"Everybody wants to take something to eternity from this world, but there is nothing in this that can find a passage there except egolessness."

"The greatest activity is the remembrance and recollection of the Lord and after that come, in order of preference, ourity of life, charity and austerity."

"It is veils that wrap past, present and future time from your view. When the beils are withdrawn one can see all."

"God's love claims him whose heart is reduced to ashes for Him."

"There are some devotees of the Lord who are His beloveds. When they call Him by name, all the birds of air and beasts of the forest stand in silence whilst the angels in heaven shudder and the earth a…"

"When the Lord leads one to the Path, he dwells in the Plane of Unity with Him and none expect God knows about his state."

"That Muslim is not praiseworthy who worships and keeps fasts, but he is to be praised in whose scroll of destiny no sin is recorded during the course of a lifetime. And when that stage is reached he f…"

"Dwell in the company of the Lord and forsake the company of the world because one should associate oneself with a friend and there is no friend superior to the Lord."