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