Aphorisms

• What use is that knowledge which cannot bring peace to its possessor or satisfy his wants? One may pray for deliverance form such knowledge.

• If a king wishes to be near a Faqir, it is his good fortune. But if a Faqir wishes to be near a king, it is his misfortune.

• He how knows the secret of death, is not affected by the vicissitudes of life; and he who knows the secret of life, is not discouraged by the ravages of death. He, who has come to know his self, has come to know Reality.

• A Faqir does not try to prove the Entity of Allah. He knows that only the on-looker’s eye can furnish proof for the existence of the sun.

• Our life moves in a narrow orbit like that of a frog in a well. We are acquainted with a limited number of people. Our life is spent in limited activity. Our knowledge is limited. We can devote a life-time to a library but we cannot exhaust a library. We do not understand full well even the members of our own family. How can we ever know about the houses in the street, the streets in the city, the cities in the country, the countries in the world, the worlds in the universe? And then the Creator of the universe is a subject out of the range of our comprehensions. And what is He? He alone knows! So bless you Allah____the Best of Creators!