A cloud that veils its own sun
A stream that muddies its own water
What has become of this heart of mine?
Man is a place,
his origin placeless
A mirror shows the form,
not the secret
Who can see me
as I am?
Allah does not look at your forms or your wealth;
He looks at your hearts and your deeds.
Muslim, Birr 34
It is called far, to fit a description;
yet the heart is where the gaze falls
Where the gaze falls
one enters with reverence
Whoever is spellbound by the self
drowns in the sea of being
Indeed, He knows what is in the hearts.
Fatir 35:38
An innocent face in what is seen,
another business in what is unseen
From the One who knows the hidden
what is left hidden?
The heart: the field where the ego,
the whisper and the mind collide
In the body there is a morsel of flesh;
if it is sound, the whole body is sound,
if it is corrupt, the whole body is corrupt.
Know that it is the heart.
Al-Bukhari, Iman 39; Muslim, Musaqat 107
Before guarding the body,
guarding the heart
Leaving the state that leads to grief,
keeping the heart clean
The heart,
the storehouse of a person's essence
The universe was set up
so that a secret would be revealed
The secret, in the human heart,
became speech in a human voice
What has become of this heart of mine?
The veil lifted;
the sun was always in its place
mim