Sahl al-Tustari Quotes

Sahl al-Tustarī or Sahl Shushtarī according to Persian custom, born Abū Muḥammad Sahl ibn ʿAbd Allāh , was a Persian Sunni Muslim scholar and early classical Sufi mystic. He founded the Salimiyah Muslim theological school, which was named after his disciple Muhammad ibn Salim.Tustari is most famous for his controversial claim that "I am the Proof of God for the created beings and I am a proof for the saints of my time" and for his well-known Tafsir, a commentary on and interpretation of the Qur'an. Wikipedia

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Famous Sahl al-Tustari Quotes

“Love consists in embracing acts of obedience and in avoiding acts of disobedience which implies that the devotee of God develops his kinship with God as he merges his will in His will and avoids that which is forbidden by Him.”

Sahl al-Tustari

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 54

“It is illicit for the heart to smell the scent of certainty while contentment with other-than-God dwells therein.”

Sahl al-Tustari

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 54

“The utmost degree of gnosis is dismay and perplexity.”

Sahl al-Tustari

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 54

“Sufism is to eat little and to take rest with God, and to flee from men.”

Sahl al-Tustari

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 54

“I am the Proof of God for the created beings and I am a proof for the saints (awliya) of my time.”

Sahl al-Tustari

Sufism: The Formative Period, p. 38

“When God created the world, He placed sin and ignorance within satisfication of the appetite and knowledge and wisdom withing hunger. When Sahl hungered he was powerful, and whenever he ate, he became weak.”

Sahl al-Tustari

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 55

“The first station of trust in God is that servant be between the hands of God exactly as the dead body is between the hands of the one who washes the dead.”

Sahl al-Tustari

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 55

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