“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.”

— Bu Ali Shah Qalandar

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 270

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Indian Sufi saint 1209–1324

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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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