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8. O seeker,
One who acquired knowledge and did not act
accordingly, is not a man. One who acquired knowledge and
duly practiced it, is a man of wisdom.
MFK, p. 75
10. The pious scholars and perfect Faqirs are the two elite
groups. One who adheres to them never comes to grief in
both the worlds.
KTK, p. 81
15. O pious scholar! don’t look down upon the Faqir with
disdain. The Faqir is a man of authority by the command of
the Judge of judges. The question of Faqir is like the
dialogue of Khadir and Moses. That is wisdom absolute27.
TH, p. 65
23. The men of God first of all purify their souls and then
keep themselves absorbed in vision of presence and
knowledge. After that they don’t need anything, they are
free from labours of endeavours.29
AK, p. 7
But the stupid are jubilant and sell away their souls.
AB, p. 23
31. The heart are deeper than the rivers and seas.
Who can fathom the hearts? ___ O Hu!
Abiyat
35. The higher the aarif (gnostic) the more humble 32 he is.
He is sometimes in desire and sometimes in awe.
AB, p. 144
36. The noble and the rich even the kings are contemptible
in the eyes of a contented and independent Faqir because
the love of dominance hinders them from the knowledge of
God.
AB, p. 126
43. One should know the sign of gnosis and the path of
gnostic.
44. Life and death are equal to the gnostic. Even if they
are dead and invisible, still they have power over all.
Though the people think that they lie buried under the soil,
yet the grave for them is a means of proximity (to God).
They are in the company of God and His Prophet (may
peace be upon him).
54. Most of the people say that Faqr is difficult but Faqir
Bahu says that it is not. Difficult is that which does not
please our heart.
Faqr is easy for him who likes it. The men of Faqr are
in fear day and night lest they come to lose it.
JA, p. 31
57. Faqir is like the sun. The higher it rises, the more its
light and radiance impels the dimness and darkness.
JA, p. 71
59. The faces of men of Faqr shine like the full moon due
tot heir spiritual greatness and grandeur and the faces of
wordly men are odious and repulsive.
61. Take up the truth and seek pardon for the innovation
and unbelief.
62. The friends of God will succeed each other and shine
like the sun till the day of Resurrection.
TH, p. 15
64. Let us seek God’s mercy to keep away from those who
are outwardly popular but in fact they are only trademen.
They are inwardly filled with impurities. Such people are
ignorant and utterly lacking in faith. They worry about the
worldly riches, gold and silver; they are robbers and
infidels.
The man who lacks inner and outer power and control,
cannot be called a Faqir __ a gnostic with divine knowledge.
TH, p. 44
The branch full of fruit bows and puts its head on the
ground.
KTK, p. 19
73. Two groups are really free in the world: the kings and
the Fuqara.
Know that God does not look towards the Throne and
the Chair, the Tablet and the Pen and the Form of man and
the knowledge of language and the external acts of worship
and the jinns and the angels, but He looks into the heart of
Perfect Man.
78. The Fuqara are like the mirror, in whatever from you
see the Faqir, you would be face to face with your own inner
reality.
89. I wonder at the people who do not serve the Fuqara for
God’s sake and on the contrary pelt stones at them.
MFK, p. 5
95. The men of the world can beseech the Fuqara but it is
a sin for the Faqir to beseech a worldly-minded person.
Well, if he does so with the order or permission of God, then
it doesn’t matter.
96. The plane of Faqr and gnosis is higher and nobler than
all the planes.
MFK, p. 214
3. The seeker of Truth who has regard for the world and
the worldly people, is accursed in both the worlds. He is nto
a dervish.
MA, p. 15
If you found out the perfect Faqir and won over his
love (as a disciple), you would have nothing to worry about
in both the worlds.
NH, p. 226
3. The dirhams and coins are like worms in the flesh. The
disease of conflicting thoughts does not allow the people to
relax.
KTK, p. 4
2. One who does not subdue and quell his ego may never
find the gnosis of God.
KTK, p. 168
3. The human soul is like a cave wherein the ego lies like
a snake.
KTK, p. 134
10. Seek the help of some prefect man so that you may be
perfect because no body except a perfect man of God can
offer guidance. The seeker of God lives like a man and the
seeker of the world lives in worry and sorrow and is of no
use.
MFK, p. 11
11. If you want to cross the bridge over the eternal fire 48,
then harass not a Muslim in any way.
MFK, p. 38
12. Solitude and the cell within the heart are better than
the solitude in the cell of clay because the earthen cell is
inferior.
16. First of all get a lawful morsel, 49 then step into Faqr.
Unless the self finds poverty and hunger more delicious
than the worldly delicacies, the way to the divine knowledge
is not revealed to it.
KTK, p. 155
17. A wrong person cannot find out the way to this Path
and the blind man cannot have the gnosis of God.
KTK, p. 264
19. Don’t you know that nothing is softer and finer than
butter because it melts with a little heat? Similarly the
hearts of dervishes, Fuqara and believers move with
compassion and their tender hearts are stirred when they
see a brother in trouble.
KTK, p. 146
Says Bahu
Abiyat
Abiyat
Abiyat
Passion and Ecstasy
4. O King!
Exalt your loyal followers.
For You are the Lord and Master:
shower your mercy upon your suffering slaves.
2. i) (born saint)
“And We gave him wisdom when a Child.” (Quran
19:20)
ii) Kalima Tayyiba: The basic and most distinguished
formula in Islamic esoteric tradition for dhikr (Invocation).
20. Knowledge direct from God: “They Moses and his man)
went back the way they came and found one of our servants
to whom we had vouchsafed Our mercy and whom We had
endowed with knowledge of Our own.” (Quran, 18:65)
24. The Sufis often start learning faqr after they have
learned all about he sacred law.
39. The Faqir who is a perfect teacher can point out to the
right direction with reference to every discipline of
knowledge.
40. It has been reminded by the Sufis time and again that
secret does not means the “secrecy.” It only means the
knowledge of deeper meaning of the divine commands and
decrees.
41. The man who was visited by Moses “Where the two
seas met”, has been called khadir. (Quran, 18:65)
42. One must come to know of the right Path even in the
first meeting with the murshid.
50. Shia & Sunni: The two main sects in Islam. Their
sectarian differences unfortunately turned to be the cause
of many political and religious disturbances in the history of
Islam.