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1- Audition should not be practiced until it comes of its own accord; one should not make a habit of it but should practice it seldom. 

2- Water flows in the river bed, but when it reaches the ocean it ceases to flow and changes its taste, so that those who desire water avoid it, but those who desire pearls dive into. 

3- There is no flame of lust that cannot be extinguished by strenuous effort, because when vice proceeds from yourself, you possess the instrument that will remove it. 

4- God annihilates the souls of those who love Him by revealing His Majesty, and endows their hearts with everlasting life by revealing His Beauty.  

5- Marriage is proper for those who prefer to associate with mankind, and celibacy is an ornament for those who seek retirement from mankind. 

6- The true object of pilgrimage is not to visit the Kaaba, but to obtain contemplation of God. 

7- God is not finite that the imagination should be able to define Him or that the intellect should comprehend His nature. 

8- The true object of pilgrimage is not to visit the Kaaba, but to obtain contemplation of God. 

9- When food is withheld from the lower soul, it grows weak, the reason gains strength, and the mysteries and evidences of God become more visible. 

10- The true object of pilgrimage is not to visit the Kaaba, but to obtain contemplation of God. 

11- Unification is a mystery revealed by God to His servants, and it cannot be expressed in words. 

12- Although hunger is an affliction to the body, it illumines the heart, purifies the soul, and leads the spirit into the presence of God. 

13- Prayer requires purification of the body; gnosis requires purification of the heart.

14- God has eternal attributes, which are peculiar to Him, and subsist through Him. 

15- The ascension of prophets takes place outwardly and in the body, whereas that of the saints takes place inwardly and in the spirit. 

16- Saint ship is a divine mystery which is revealed only through conduct. 

17- The pre-eminence of the prophets depends on their exalted rank and not their being preserved from the defilement of sin, not on miracles or acts which violate custom. 

18- To covet this world is to turn away from God for the sake of that which is transitory, and to covet the next world is to turn away from God for the sake of that which is everlasting. 

19- God has caused the prophetic evidence to remain down to the present day and has made the saints the means whereby it is manifested. 

20- A miracle is a token of saint's veracity, and it cannot be manifested to an imposer except as a sign that his pretensions are false. 

21- That which is transitory perishes and its renunciation becomes naught, but that which is everlasting cannot perish, hence its renunciation is also imperishable. 

22- Unless Divine protection is predestined to a man, he cannot abstain from anything by his own exertion. 

23- The lust of the eye is sight, that of the ear is hearing, that of the nose is smell, that of the tongue is speech that of the palate is taste, that of the body is touch, and that of the mind is thought. 

24- Religion is the root and Sufism is the branch. 

25- When a person resigns himself to God, God protects him, and through God's protection he comes nearer to annihilating the evil than he does through self-mortification. 

26- Eternal life is gained by spiritual sacrifice and by renunciation of self-interest in fulfilling God's commandments. 

27- When you have obtained knowledge of the lower soul, you recognize that it can be controlled by discipline, but that its essence and substance do not perish. 

28- Mortification stands in the same relation to contemplation as Divine blessing to obedience. 

29- When a man is satisfied with God's decrees, it is a sign that God is satisfied with him. 

30- When a man sees God's choice and abandons his own choice, he is delivered from all sorrow. 

31- When you are reconciled to God in affliction, you see only the Author of affliction, and the affliction itself does not come. 

32- Essences are not capable of annihilation; attributes, however, can be annihilated. 

33- If you are not reconciled to God, when affliction comes, your heart is filled with anguish. 

34- God having predestined our satisfaction and dissatisfaction does not alter His predestination; therefore our satisfaction with His decrees is a part of our pleasure. 

35- The corruption of the divines consists in covetousness, that of the princes in injustice, and that of the dervishes in hypocrisy. 

36- Do not trouble yourself with destiny, for what is destined from eternity will not be changed by your efforts. 

37- The friends of God behold in every gift and benefit the Giver and the Benefactor. 

38- Love is an attribute of the beloved; therefore no explanation of its real nature is possible. 

39- The food of the dervish is ecstasy, his clothing is piety, and his dwelling place is the Unseen. 

40- A man is united to God when God holds him in honor, and separated from God when God holds him in contempt. 

41- Any one, who pretends to know God without lowliness and fear, is an ignorant fool, not a Gnostic. 

42- Knowledge and action cannot be divorced in any way, just as the light of the sun cannot be separated from the sun itself. 

43- Ordinary people seek indulgences to keep themselves within the pale of the sacred law, but the elect practice self-mortification to feel the fruit thereof in their hearts. 

44- Acquiescence is a characteristic of God's friends, while hypocrisy is a characteristic of His enemies. 

45- The saints of God attain to a place where place no longer exists, where all degrees and stations disappear and where outward expressions fall off from the underlying realities. 

46- This world is the abode of trouble, the pavilion of affliction, the den of sorrow, the house of parting, and the cradle of tribulation. 

47- The term 'Sufi' has no derivation answering to etymological requirements inasmuch as Sufism is too exalted to have any genus from which it might be derived. 

48- The Sufi is entirely present: his soul is where his body is, and his body where his soul is, and his soul where his foot is, and his foot where his soul is. 

49- Formerly the practice of Sufism was known and the pretense unknown; nowadays the pretense is known and the practice is unknown. 

50- Dervish hood in all its meanings is a metaphorical poverty, and a midst all its subordinate aspects, there is a transcendent principle.