Bu Ali Shah Qalandar

Sharafuddeen Bu Ali Shah Qalandar Panipati, renowned as Bu Ali Qalandar (b. 1209– d. 3 September 1324), was a Qalandar and Sufi saint of the Chishtī Order who lived and taught in India. His shrine or dargah (mausoleum) is at Bu Ali Shah Qalandar Dargah, Panipat which is a place of pilgrimage.

The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

 * Beloved has been created in your image and sent to you in order to put you on the right path.
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 * When Divine providence graces you, and you are endowed with passion of love and alienated from your ego, at that time Divine love enters your inmost being and He shows His Beauty to you.
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 * When you recognize the Beauty, you will also recognize the Beloved and fall in love with Him.
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 * Become lover. Think both the worlds beauty of the Beloved and think own self the beauty of the Beloved.
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 * The Beloved created your being from His own love so that He could see His own beauty in the mirror of your heart and make you privy of His mysteries.
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 * The beauty of worldly allurements makes it lovers so much oblivious that they forget the passage of temporal as well as celestial worlds. They fail to understand the challenge before them.
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 * Search your heart within where lies the key to all Divine mysteries, and where God has placed treasures of Divine, mystical and spiritual powers.
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 * God knows best who we are and why we were created and therefore, we should concern ourselves only with the fear of God, love of God and obedience to God's commands.
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 * Devotion to God and service to fellow beings is the pivot of life.
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 * Thrones and crowns of worldly kings carry worth less than shows of donkey for us.
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 * When His (God) beauty has permeated in each and every iota of the world, why should I sit like an ascetic (hermit) in a corner!
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 * When an irrational animal like camel dances at the tune of bell, why don't you, being the best of creation, attain absorption and ecstasy in the love of God, or go into rapture by listening the name of the Beloved.
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 * To remain satisfied and grateful for the pleasure of the Beloved, at the cost of religion and heart is necessarily passionate love, which in Sufi terminology is called faithfulness.
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 * Divine way is extremely difficult to tread, but you should not despair. If you have courage, true aspiration, and ardency of love, then come to this path, otherwise be silent.
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 * O poor-fellow! Do you know what is renunciation and what is piety? It is that you don't go to the places of the king, nor roam about in quest of livelihood nor base yourself for sake of worldly wealth, nor sit in the company of the world lings.
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 * You are captive of your lower-self (ego); you nullify it and break the snare so that you arrive at your real nest.
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 * O the people of faith, when you open inner eyes, you will see beauty of the Beloved, radiant everywhere. In every mirror you see Him. In every color of His manifestation you will notice fire of His love.
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 * We are enraptured lover and insane, we searched the Beloved everywhere. When I smell the fragrance of His divinity, I get intoxicated in His lane.
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