Golden Word Sayings - By Titles "C" - from 700 to 958 - Go To: -- 750 -- 800 -- 850 -- 900 700. Charm The Five-Headed Cobra Do not be a snake charmer to the snakes of the world. Charm the five-headed cobra of your senses (sight, taste, smell, sound, and feeling). Extract its four hundred trillion, ten thousand, poisonous teeth, lock it within the cage of your wisdom, and make it dance. Then you will be a real snake charmer 701. Do Not Try To Win Prizes From The World 702. Mount The Horse Of The Breath Of Your Soul 703. Shave Your Face Everyday 704. Accept And Eat The Permissible Food From God 705. Do Not Be Arrogant 706. Making The Mind Peaceful And Tranquil 707. A Crane Has A Selfish Motive 708. An Eagle Can Balance In The Sky 709. Do Not Take The Dog Of Desire 710. The Pearl Oyster 711. When A Cat Sets Out To Catch A Rat 712. Collecting Water From A Pond 713. Do Not Grow Crops On A Rocky Mountain 714. Plow The Land With Wisdom 715. Do Not Believe Your Eyes 716. Place The Truth In Front Of You 717. Everything White Is Not Milk 718. Do Not Trust Mirages 719. Flowers Which Resemble The Lotus 720. When You Pray To God, Leave Behind The Supermarket List 721. You Are Not Deceiving The World 722. It Is Not Clever To Kill Others 723. Curses, Black Magic, And Plots 724. Cleansing The Karmic Dirt 725. Pick The Original Apples 726. Four Kinds Of Inherited Cancers 727. What Is In Your Heart Will Come To Your Face 728. The Vessel Of The Mind Has Twelve Holes 729. The Eternal Flavor Of God's Truth 730. The Slippery Mountain Of Mind And Desire 731. The Thorns Of Desire 732. Making Ocean Water Useful 733. A Dog Finds Its Master 734. The Parts Of The Body Help Each Other 735. Avoid Outer Beauty And Its Hazards 736. God Is Gold And Brass Is Brass 737. The Body Of Man And The Body Of Teak Tree 738. Fire That Purifies Water 739. Within A Seed Is A Fruit 740. The Fisherman's Net 741. The Sandalwood Tree 742. Two Types Of Blood Cells 743. Earth And Body Of Man 744. Vegetarian Food 745. The Water In A Pond 746. What God Has Given Woman 747. A Pot To Fit The Lid 748. A Banana Tree 749. The Right And The Left 750. The Taproot Of A Banyan Tree The Shaikh said: Son, a banyan tree grows into a huge tree which can cover an area of nearly a mile. Though this tree grows from only a tiny seed, its taproot goes very deep, and supporting roots spread out and fix themselves firmly. When the tree is firmly rooted, its weight does not affect it, and no matter how big a gale or storm may come, the roots hold on firmly because the taproot is strong and straight. The supporting roots give additional strength to the taproot. You are a man, are you not? Similarly, if the taproot of iman, the taproot of faith, certitude, and determination in God, goes straight down within you, and the supporting roots of patience, inner patience, contentment (and gratitude), surrender to God, and praise to God, spread out to strengthen it, even if the weight of the whole world comes on you, even if poverty, illness, elemental ghosts, and all the troubles of the 18,000 worlds come to attack you, they will not be able to dislodge you. If you have fixed your balance in the proper place, you will see God within you, and yourself within God. None of these states will shake you up or make your mind waver. It is because you do not have this balance, because you do not have the firm taproot of iman, that suffering is affecting you. Because of this, even if you know there is a God, you are unable to derive any benefit from it. 751. Winnow With Wisdom 752. When Is Youth No Longer An Excuse? 753. When Should A Shaikh Be Spoken Of? 754. The Evil Itch Within 755. Allah Knows The Heart 756. Allah Cannot Bear Hurt To His Slave 757. Picture World Of The Mind 758. To Pray With The Idea Of Receiving 759. Children Of Different Circumstances 760. Search For Wisdom And Clear Your Heart 761. The Tree Of Divine Knowledge ('Ilm) 762. Scratch Your Own Back 763. Do Not Leave A Parrot In Charge Of Your House 764. On A Journey, Take Only Allah's Wealth 765. Revelations Of The Puranas 766. The Donkey And Its Burden 767. How The Cobra Wooed The Frog 768. Two Sections In The Heart 769. Spit Anything With Wisdom 770. Love Brings Out Different Actions 771. The Love A Cat Shows A Rat 772. A Dog Shows Love Through Gratitude 773. Have You Realized Yourself? 774. The State Of Intelligence That Gives A Foul Odor 775. A Night Journey Through A Jungle 776. Learning From The Shaikh 777. A Blind Man And A Deaf Man 778. Four Men Ask Advice From A Shaikh 779. Measuring A Hole With A Limited Tail 780. All Seeds Have Two Sections 781. God's Grace Is The Shore 782. A Tiger Alone In A Cave 783. Four Buffaloes In The Forest 784. A Vegetarian Cat In A Fish Market 785. Ride The Horse Of You Mind 786. Assess All That You See With Analytic Wisdom 787. Give Allah's Property Back To Allah 788. The Thieves Within Your Body 789. Do Not Wage War To Capture Lands 790. God's Creations Belong To The Same Group 791. Sharpen The Blade Of Knife 792. Look At An Ant 793. A Camel Is Called The Ship Of The Desert 794. Peel Your Bananas Before You Eat Them 795. Do Not Write On Water 796. Why Some Creatures Do Not Carry The Weight Of The World 797. When You Plant A Beautiful Fruit Tree 798. The Nature Of The Earth 799. To Build A House, You Must Make Estimates 800. The Skunk The black and white skunk is very beautiful to the eyes, but the stench within the skunk is horrible. Its smell is so disgusting that you cannot be within three hundred feet of it. In the same way, man may also look beautiful on the outside when he wears beautiful clothes and jewelry, or when he has money and property. But the stench of arrogance, karma, maya, selfishness, anger, pride, jealousy, vengeance, deception, scheming, fanaticism, bigotry, and the other evil qualities within him is far worse than the smell of the skunk.. When this odor emanates from man, Allah and His benevolence, good qualities, compassion, and truth, will quickly fly away. If man peels off and throws away the skin of external beauty which has such a repulsive odor, the resonance of Allah, His qualities, His fragrance, His actions, His unity, His peace, His equality, and His justice will come looking for him. Many lives will come to him in friendship, and he will be a cooling fragrance to the hearts of all God's creations. Cast away the external beauty which smells so awful inside, and acquire the inner beauty which is fragrant everywhere. A man must strive to develop inner rather than outer beauty. A beautiful fragrance must exist on the inside, a fragrance which can attract and enthrall everyone. Inner beauty is God's beauty, God's love, God's compassion, and God' unselfish duty. If you can develop that beauty and fragrance within yourself, it will be good. 801. The Dangerous Discoveries Of Man 802. What Man Experiences Will Depend On Where He Chooses To Stand 803. The Fox Known As The Mind 804. A Small Pond Will Not Give Drinking Water Forever 805. Do Not Rely On Food From A Restaurant 806. Make Every Speech To Yourself 807. God Is The Emperor Of All Kingdoms 808. Do Not Be Lazy 809. Look At The World 810. That Within Which Cannot Be Seen 811. Truth Does Exist 812. A Treasure Of Grace Within You 813. The Unseen Light Within You 814. How Can One Laugh While In Prison? 815. The World Is A Rest House 816. God Is Beyond Intellect 817. Cry To A Man Of Wisdom 818. Why Your Father Asks You To Speak 819. The King And The Thirty-Second Minister 820. Repairing The Dents Of Mind And Desire 821. The Pond Depends On Rain 822. Be Like The Fruit Tree 823. The Ocean Of God's Knowledge ('Ilm) 824. Within Us Are Two Pathways 825. God's Justice Must Prevail 826. Changing Seasons 827. The Ocean Of Your Heart 828. Do Not Follow Your Hunger 829. Do Not Move Towards Death 830. Do Not Feel Sorrowful About Your Poverty 831. Destroy The Inner Jungle 832. Chase Away The Tiger Within 833. Follow People Who Are Good 834. When A Crow Dies 835. The Garb Of A Guru 836. Do Not Roam Searching For God 837. To Be Shaved Properly 838. Do Not Waste Time With Useless Talk 839. Do Not Ridicule God's Creation 840. Do Not Say That Creation Is Crazy 841. Tie Up The Dog Of Desire 842. The Cat Within 843. A Shaikh Must Know The Qualities Of His Children 844. Do Not Waste Water 845. Man Is Carrying The World 846. What You Drink, Drinks You 847. Discard The Thief Within 848. Know God And Leave All Else Behind 849. Your Attachments Make You Carry The World 850. Eat Only What Is Good - and only the good will eat you, only the good will be within you, serving you as the lights of God in the Kingdom of God, in Akhirah A man came to the Sufi Shaikh, crying, "O Shaikh! I am undergoing many difficulties. I have no means to eat." The Sufi asked, "Son, why are you crying? Come, sit down and learn." What is eating you? What do you eat? What you eat is eating you. If you stop eating it, it will stop eating you. This is what you are eating: desire, mind, attachments, blood ties, selfishness, anger, hastiness, karma, arrogance, illusion, treachery, deceit, robbery vengeance, jealousy, ignorance, lack of wisdom, obsession, hatred, miserliness, greed, fanaticism, envy, intoxicants, lust, theft, murder, falsehood, and everything else that is prohibited. Every day you continue to search for and devour the things which will one day turn around and devour you. Give them up. Discriminate between good and bad, permissible and prohibited. Eat only what is good. At every moment, you must praise Allah, and accept with contentment whatever He has set aside for you. For whatever is to come at the next moment, give all responsibility to God. The day you eat in this manner the food He has given you, that is the day the wealth of God's grace will blossom within you. On that day, the darkness that was eating you from within will leave automatically. 851. What Is Most Exalted In Your Life? - realizing that only Iman or purity is Islam, and that only God or the Light of God is Islam, and acting accordingly, is what makes our life exalted My son, you must understand (your life). What is most exalted in your life? What gives splendor to your life? You must understand whether you are One who has iman. Iman means purity, and purity means light. Islam is light: lam - the light of (your) life, the light of your actions, the light of your prayers. (And) the One to whom you intend to pray is Light. There are five points (prerequisites) in Islam: first, patience; second, inner patience (sabur); third, contentment (shukur); fourth, absolute trust in God (tawakkul-Allah); fifth, giving all praise to God (Al-hamdu lillah). These relate to khair, or that which is good. Islam is the state of understanding sharr or evil, and then establishing that which is khair (or good). These five points are the introduction to becoming a human being, and becoming Islam, becoming light. If you lose them, you will be in a dark room, a room without light. 852. This Is Meditation - being in the presence of God, in the presence of the True Shaikh The Sufi gnani tells His disciples: My children, come here (and let me explain to you the true meaning of prayer, and meditation). Sit in the presence of the One who is forever, pray in the presence of the One who prays, see in the presence of the One who sees, speak in the presence of the One who speaks. This is prayer. This is meditation. 853. Close The Nine Holes And Meditate Properly - stop deceiving yourself, instead, join with the True Shaikh to set the light to the inner heart, and then use that light to meditate on the Light know as God within your heart There are two eyes in your face, but there are four hundred trillion eyes in your body which are the pores of your skin. There are nine mouths (in your body): the two eyes, the two ears, the nose, the mouth, the navel, and the two below. How can you think you are meditating with your eyes closed when you have all these eyes? You must close all of these (eyes), and stop the speech of the (nine) openings of the body (before you can meditate on God). Though you close your physical eyes, you allow all the other eyes and mouths to open and meditate on whatever they like. This is not meditation. By this, you are deceiving yourself, (you are deceiving) your birth, and your life. To others you may seem to be in meditation, but for you it is hell. All the nine mouths are screaming, all the millions and millions of eyes are howling, wanting everything they see. How can you meditate in such a state. Learn to meditate properly. Plug the nine holes in your body, close all the eyes, stop your speech, control yourself, dispel the earth, and chase the woman of illusion away from your mind. Then you will know the benefit. 854. Receive The Undying Fruit Of Allah's Grace 855. Like Snow, Man's Elements Will Melt 856. Maya's Illusory Beauty 857. "Go Even Unto China To Learn 'Ilm (Divine Knowledge)" 858. Do Not Harm Others 859. Do Not Analyze Others 860. You Intention To Hurt Others Is Killing You 861. Certificates From The World 862. Islam Is To Make Others Peaceful 863. The Man Who Came To Kill The Rasul (Sal.) 864. The Magnifying Glass Of Wisdom 865. A Fish Cannot Live Without Water 866. What Man Sees Is Dreams 867. Clear The Inner Body With The Shaikh 868. The Needle Of Wisdom 869. The Cow And The Thirsty Dog 870. A Tiger's Trip To The Village 871. Do Not Call Your Ignorance Truth 872. The Taproot For Man's Life 873. The Empty Vessel 874. A Small Door To A Huge Fortress 875. The Lemon 876. Flag Of Pride 877. Faultfinding 878. The Bud Of Truth And Wisdom 879. What Is Great? 880. The Net Of Desire 881. Eclipse Of The Sun 882. The Crab With Ten Legs 883. The Flies Of Suffering 884. Use Your Own Eyes 885. The Frightening Cobra 886. The Chameleon As A Guru 887. Worrying And Escaping 888. The Thirsty Travelers 889. If You Want Milk 890. Develop Love Within 891. How To Make The Fellowship Grow 892. A Man's Search For A Beautiful Wife 893. The Bull Who Wanted More 894. The Farmer's Loincloth 895. How To Protect The Country 896. Outer Destruction, Inner Calm 897. Extract The Essence 898. The Prayer In Allah's Presence 899. How To Open The Heart 900. Does God See The Balance Within Us? Child: Does God always see the balance between a person's qualities, and the difficulties in his life? His Holiness: God has given you everything. He has given you rain. He has given you high mountains and valleys. He has given you oceans and lands. He has given you everything - a body, life, everything. You have to know that. He has given you the way to climb up, to climb down, to walk, to sit, everything. You must think. He has given you the balance. You must understand the balance you hold in your hands. God does not need to examine the balance, because He has given you everything. When trying to climb a mountain, you will fall if you lose your balance. It is your responsibility (to maintain your balance). He will merely watch. He will look at you and say, "O man, why have you lost your balance like this?" But of course, if we fall He will lift us up. He will comfort us and say, "All right, in the future realize that when you climb a mountain you need a stick to support yourself. Be careful." He will comfort us when we fall in our ignorance. He will come to save us and help us, and He will tell us, "Should you not know this? You need to be cautious, do you not? But no matter how many times he comes to lift us up and help us, we continue to fall whenever we lose our balance. It is in our hands. There is a bridge between heaven and hell, a very subtle bridge of wisdom, which is as narrow as the edge of a sword. To cross this bridge, first, we must surrender to God and leave the world behind. Then we must walk carefully on the edge of that sword; illusion is on one side and hell is on the other. As we walk, the storms of illusion and hell will try to knock us off the bridge, shoving us this way and that. This is why we must leave behind the world of illusion, the world of maya. We must walk across the bridge of wisdom with the balance of faith in God, in order to reach gnanam, divine wisdom. If we lose our balance, we will surely fall. 901. Why Are We Always Falling? Child: Why are we always falling down? His Holiness says it is our fault. His Holiness: I did not say it was your fault. If you are wondering why you are falling, you have only to look at it through wisdom. There must be some weakness, whether it is in the leg, the hand, the body, or in wisdom or faith; there must be some lack of strength in one of the supporting parts. Because it has lost its strength, you have fallen down. If you support yourself with the strong stick of faith in Allah, unwavering faith without the slightest doubt, you will not fall. As long as that stick retains its strength, you will not fall. 902. Awareness Of Inner Strength Child: Is everyone born with an awareness of that strength? His Holiness: A tree is contained within a seed, although we can not see it. You have seen how the flowers, fruits, and leaves of massive trees grow from a tiny seed. In the same way, the strength is within you, in your seed. God has given you everything. If you believe this with certitude, you will become aware of that strength. 903. How Awareness Comes Child: How does that awareness come? His Holiness: You have the awareness. Everything is within you. The flowers are there, the branches are there, the leaves are there, the raw fruit, the ripe fruit, the taste, everything (is there). Look within. 904. Discover Awareness Child: So you have to discover it, right? His Holiness: It is because of your awareness that you scratch when you itch. You have the perception to know where you itch, and your intellect tells you to scratch. When you scratch in that place, you make it peaceful. This is how you must find the treasure within you, using divine analytic wisdom. Then you can avert whatever difficulties or dangers that come to you. 905. Experience Other's Sorrows Child: How can one progress from imagining another's sorrow and suffering to actually experiencing it as if it were his own? His Holiness: Only if adequate wisdom, the quality of comforting, and the duty that God does emerge within you, will you have that experience. It is a transformation within you that makes you experience the suffering of others as your own. 906. Inhale The Sorrow Of Others The rose flower has a fragrance which you can experience and enjoy. You and the nose experience it together. Just as you inhale the fragrance from the flower and enjoy it with your nose, you must inhale the sorrow of others with the nose of wisdom, experience it, and then comfort them. This is Allah's work. This is His duty. 907. The Five Duties 908. How To Perceive Satan 909. A True Man's Existence 910. Know Your World 911. Death Is In Your Hands 912. A Dream About Poisonous Wells 913. Faith In Family Connections 914. Who Has Seen The Rasulullah (Sal.)? 915. On Bistami 916. Are Heaven And Hell Created? 917. Heaven Within The Qalb 918. One Who Accepts The Kalimah Becomes It 919. Rasulullah (Sal.) On Mi'raj 920. Tying Up Our Camel 921. Surrender To The Shaikh 922. Physical Presence Of The Shaikh 923. Your State In The Shaikh's Presence 924. Recognizing Evil Qualities 925. The Feeling Of "I" Separates You From The Shaikh 926. Acquiring Wisdom From The Shaikh 927. Explanation On Suratul-Kafirun 928. The Shaikh As Traffic Policeman 929. We Need Limits 930. Has A King Ever Lived In Peace? 931. Volcanoes Can Occur Within Us 932. God Is Always In Front Of Us 933. Separation From God 934. When The World Praises You 935. The Wealth Of A Miser 936. A Poisonous Tree Has No Benefit 937. Desire Is Of No Use 938. None Of These Are Of Any Use 939. None Of These Will Result In Good 940. None Of These Will Result In Clarity 941. Expectations 942. Scratch The Place That Itches 943. Understand How To Patch A Leak 944. Trust In Allah 945. Anger Is The Guru Of Sin 946. All Creations That Kill Lives Are Dangerous 947. The Eternal Fragrance 948. With Wisdom, Select The Right Fruit 949. Prayers That Are Salaried 950. The Work In A Fish Market 951. The Honeybee Searches Only For Honey 952. Research The World And Yourself 953. The Wise Disciple At The Pond 954. The Apple Tree 955. The Apple Seed 956. Rabi'atul-Adawiyyah's Four Question 957. Hasanul Basri Proposes Marriage To Rabi'atul-Adawiyyah 958. Ibrahim Ibn Adam And The Camel On The Rooftop |
