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“„What are words but praises of echo!
But music is the gift of the Beneficent;
From Him it came and to Him it shall return.
Therefore song is my prayer and prayer is my song

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O loved ones of God, cease to teach and learn to sing

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What is Sufism but the promise of a song,
That the song be sung on earth as it is in Heaven,
And that man who is greater than the angels
Prove his greatness by his better deeds.

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Tell them the end of music is the end of the world,
And the cessation from glorification is the victory of night;
So long as is music is the world,
So long as is glorification is existence.

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With a song came the World and by music is it sustained,
And the soul of man is a note of revelation.“

~ Crescent and Heart. A poem by

Murshid Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti)”
― Samuel L. Lewis

“Art does not render what is visible, but renders visible.”
― Paul Klee

“But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him. One can only hope to see one step ahead. But I saw today there was one thing unforgivable — like things in the schoolroom, so bad they are unpunishable, that only Mummy could deal with — the bad thing I was on the point of doing, that I'm not quite bad enough to do; to set up a rival good to God's.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“Henceforth I learn, that to obey is best,
And love, with fear, the only God; to walk
As in His presence, ever to observe
His providence, and on Him sole depend,
Merciful over all his works, with good
Still overcoming evil, and by small
Accomplishing great things; by things deemed weak
Subverting wordly strong, and worldly wise
By simply meek; that suffering for truth's sake
Is fortitude to highest victory;
And, to the faithful, death the gate of life -
Taught this by His example, whom I now
Acknowledge my Redeemer ever blest.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost