9 Hossein Elahi Ghomshei Quotes

Hossein Elahi Ghomshei quotes

1. Love is described by the Sufis as the remedy of all ills and the alchemy of existence. Love transforms poverty into riches, pauper into prince, war into peace, ignorance into knowledge and hell into heaven.

2. Persian Sufi poetry is animated by a vision of divine beauty-that beauty which is in the words of Keats, 'a joy forever.' This beauty is also, in the theological vocabulary of the Koran, the 'Light of the Heavens and the Earth.' The Truth underlying Appearance, the Absolute Being, the One who is 'like unto none'. All round the world my heart has gone but like unto Him found no one' There is none like Him, none like Him, none!

1. “In his mystical epic "The Rhyming Spiritual Couplets" (Mathnawi-yi ma'nawi), Rumi frequently celebrates the Religion of Love. The following verse from his Mathnawi constitutes his most famous statement concerning the pre-eminence of this higher secta amoris: Love's state is apart From religions and faith God is the lover's creed— God is the lover's state.”

2. “Know it for certain that the lover's not a Muslim For in the creed of love there's neither infidelity Or faith; since once you fall in love, you have no body, No soul, no heart, no mind: who ain't like this, ain't nothin. _Rumi”

3. “It is wrong to assert we enter into the world devoid of all faith and belief and only subsequently personally select a religion for ourselves. On the contrary, each person is born with love for the good, beautiful and true innately instilled within him. If he doesn't deviate from the straight path of his original disposition, this primordial love will mature and develop within him and direct him along his course in life.”

4. “beauty—the beloved—brings into existence myriads of lovers (nightingales); every moment she contemplates herself through the eyes of these lovers, hearing them sing her praises. Instant by instant, the one beauty assumes shape after shape, harkening to a perpetual chant of panegyric intoned upon a thousand tongues.”

5. “The true believers within every religion, as Rumi puts it, are like rays of a single lamp: If ten lamps are together in one place each one is different from the next in form. You cannot tell apart the light of each when you are looking at them, there is no doubt.”

6. “While the Mystic masters prided themselves on being 'lunatic', this was understood in two distinct senses: one, a lunacy below reason, and another, a lunacy above reason. The second type of lunacy, in the words of Shakespeare, is a 'fine frenzy', whereas the first type is the neurotic or psychotic insanity belonging to the field of abnormal psychology. Thus, where Rumi exclaims: I am a lover, skilled in the arts of madness; I am surfeited with culture and learning.”

7. “Although a difference does indeed exist between divine Revelation (wahy) and poetic inspiration (ilhām), this distinction is one of hierarchical degree, not of essential nature, for both prophetic revelation and poetic inspiration come from the same source.”