“Leave aside craving for other than God: anything else is pseudo thought. Except the Real One, all things are perishable. Each instant concentrate on the Real; undoubtedly this is the committed way.”

— Khwaja Ghulam Farid

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 299

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19th-century sufi Punjabi poet of the punjab , polyglot, sc… 1845–1901

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