. If the name of the Divine is uttered even once with the tongue, it is the remembrance of the tongue; if the Divine is remembered once with the heart, then that is equal to thirty five million utterances (dhikr, remembrance) of the tongue. Such is the dhikr of the heart. There are 35 million blood vessels in the body, and all are connected to the heart. If the Divine’s name is uttered even once (with the heart) then all the vessels utter it too.
. In a river, a boat travels on the water and the greater the amount of water, the more at ease the boat will be. However if that very water enters the boat, it will capsize. The heart is as the boat and the sorrows and heartaches of the world are the water; everyone’s boat has sunk except that of the people of God - those who keep the remembrance - which always stays afloat.
. God the Most High has created the heart for His remembrance, and has not created it for worries.
. The body has been given to use, and not to nourish and make fat: You must awake, so awaken now, whilst beneath the heavens’ shadow.
You shall have until the Judgement Day to sleep - beneath the earth’s darkness!
. In a river, a boat travels on the water and the greater the amount of water, the more at ease the boat will be. However if that very water enters the boat, it will capsize. The heart is as the boat and the sorrows and heartaches of the world are the water; everyone’s boat has sunk except that of the people of God - those who keep the remembrance - which always stays afloat.
. God the Most High has created the heart for His remembrance, and has not created it for worries.
. The body has been given to use, and not to nourish and make fat: You must awake, so awaken now, whilst beneath the heavens’ shadow.
You shall have until the Judgement Day to sleep - beneath the earth’s darkness!
- Quoted from 40 Sayings Of A Modern Sufi Master / article by Asif Naqshbandi
Selection of wise sayings by Naqshbandi Sufi Master, Hazrat Pir Sayyid Jamaat Ali Shah Sahib quds-sirruhu (c.1840 -1951) of Alipur Sharif, Sialkot, Pakistan. May God sanctify his secrets.
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