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"O God, you are the only confident of my days You are inside, outside, you are settled in my pores You the warp, the weft, my each and everything is you Say Hussain, the worthless fakir, I am nothing, You are all."
"O Mother ! To whom can I tell, this state of separation-pain Fires of Faqeer smoulder, wherever I rummage ruby-red gain, Thorns pierces, make me mad, separation my mind's refrain O Mother ! To whom can I tell, this state of separation-pain."
"True love has be-guided me, O friend! Reveal to me the land of my Beloved. At my parents' I was an innocent maid. With love to me He has robbed me of my heart. Logic, semantics and a store of knowledge— Such pedantry has left me devoid of Him. Of what use are fasts and prayers to them, Who have drunk deep from the front of love? Sitting in the company of the Spouse, Bullah is free from all rituals, O friend!"
"If I tell a lie, something is left out; If I speak out the truth, there is a blaze. My mind fears both the alternatives, But haltingly my tongue speaks out. Words that come to my tongue cannot be held back. If I were to unravel the mysteries, All would forget to discuss and debate. They would then kill our friend Bullah, For only the hidden truth befits here."
"By going to Mecca the mystery is not obtained, so long as the ego is not annihilated. By going to the Ganga the mystery is not solved, though you may take a hundred dips in it. By going to Gaya the mystery is not solved, though you may offer many rice-cakes at funerals. O Bullah, salvation will be obtained only when the 'I' is completely eliminated."
"Accursed be prayers, to hell with fasts, and let confession of faith be damned. O Bullah, I have found the Lord within, and the world wanders in delusion!"
"In shrines dwell robbers, in idol-houses, thugs. In mosques live vagabonds, the lovers of God remaind aloof."
"Quest for the Truth is not any easy job. Unless you become single in His quest you won't be able to find Him."
"Do you know what is the first prerequisite of the mystic way? It is the abdication of both the worlds with one stroke of toe."
"Perfect Sufi is that in whose eye stone and ruby are alike. He who is with God Most High, is never indigent."
"When a Sufi becomes perfect and his heart cleansed of evil thought, nothing can send him harm."
"He who becomes oblivious of God for a moment, is as good as infidel although impliedly."
"Adherence to Shariah causes attainment to mystic way. When in the mystic way, all the evil traits, carnality and sensual passions are cleansed, it causes one consciousness of the Truth. And do you know that is the Truth? To make one's being vigilant and dispel all 'other' from [[heart] expect God."
"Two guests cannot be accommodated in one house (heart)."
"If one has deserted the world, but one thought still inclines to worldliness, he is not considered as free man nor an ascetic; his inner defilement still survives."
"Detachment from the world (tajrid) and seclusion (tafrid) are indispensable. He who becomes perfect in tajrid (detachment from the world) achieves his goal soon."
"Don't take anyone a person holding spiritual power of control (Karamat) unless he is put to test hundred times."
"If the world is replete with blood and wealth, still man of God would not eat anything except licit thing."
"Death of Auliya Allah, in true sense is the death of their lower-self. When it is annihilated, he gets eternal life."
"Spiritual power of Auliya Allah in worldly life and in the hereafter is alike. Rather after death it is more intensified because in worldly life, corporal being and states are impediments which after death are eliminated. It is like a sword without dheath which is more effective in action."
"Sufi, in the state of ecstasy, is annihilated of his own being and subsists in the Absolute Being. It can be surely said, that in this state of condition, if a grain falls or less then this, he becomes aware of it."
"When Sufi becomes perfect and his heart purified of evil thoughts, nothing can harm him; he is king himself and all the worldly kings are subjugated to him."
"Garments donned should be such, that no one could recognise that you are traveller of Sufi path. Mian Mir would always condemn patched frock-the conventional garments of Sufis."
"Sufi is that who is "naught". If still 'be' he must not 'be'."
"The spiritual practice of Hazrat Mian Mir is highly difficult to follo without complete detachment and isolation. But we have made it easy for our disciples by our own severs asceticism and austerities. Now there is peace, expansion and blissful time in our practice for the wayfarers."
"Hazrat Mian Mir is the secret of the domain of gnosis The dust of his threshold is a thing of envy for elixir Intellect has written date of his demise Mian Mir has gone to Heaven in 1045 A.H"
"Nothing in reality exists, except God, the Absolute Being."
"Every particle of the dust has universal unity. The individual is only in the same way a part of the Infinite Being who fills in the universe, a particle whish has been momentarily detached there from only to return thither."
"To know oneself is the equivalent of knowing God. But in order to acquire this knowledge, the disciple must submit to long and painful process of self-discipline. He must pass though all the test of the severest asceticism. Only after he has prepared himself, will the spiritual master open his heart and render him capable of perceiving the mysteries of the spiritual world."
"Inner travel is a blessed journey. So it is complete now in good manner. Then who can object the worldly travel?"
"Don't worry, He (Allah) will not separate his lovers from Himself. It is not possible to unrecognize after having full cognition of Him. But one must not give up struggle, nor becomes negligent."
"Aspiration lead to mystic path and the end of mystic path i gnosis. But gnosis itself has no end. Its gate is always open. The traveler must cross it."
"All sorts of perfections are attained to the gnostic. He is also confidant of Divine mysteries."
"Every individual being has the ability to acquire intuitive knowledge."
"We must say that only One exists, Though such a saying excite astonishment; The universe is He, though we must not say so openly Such doctrines must be kept secret."