“Gnostic has an elevated spiritual rank. He eats less, sleeps less and repose less. He is like shinning moon who radiates others and bears the burden of everything on earth, shows right path like light and saturates the heart like water giving it new life.”

—  Sari al-Saqati

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam, p. 43

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