Words of Wisdom from the Imam...

Imam Shafi`i said: 3 things in this world have been made lovely to me: avoiding affectation, treating people kindly, and following the way of tasawwuf.

He also said: I accompanied the Sufis and received from them but three words:
their statement that time is a sword: if you do not cut it, it cuts you;
their statement that if you do not keep your ego busy with truth it will keep you busy with falsehood;
their statement that deprivation is immunity.

[-Al-Shafi`i]

More Than

This is a beautiful song about one man's love for His Prophet (SAW)....

More Than

by Kareem Salama

Since when did a man need to be free of his sin
To see the face of the moon and feel the warmth of a friend
I come from miles and miles away from a far and distant place
But I pray every night to dream of the light of your face
The more I know you I love you

Chorus

More than mountains of jewels
More than months of honeymoons
More than gold loves a fool
I love you

VERSE 2

I’d give up everything I have which isn’t much to say the most
But if you’d be my honored guest then I’d be a gracious host
If you’re the paradise I seek then I was born in hell
If you’re the garden where we sit then I sit on land untilled

The more I know you I love you
More than mountains of jewels
More than months of honeymoons
More than gold loves a fool
I love you

More than shade under a tree
On a summer day in Tennessee
More than I love me
I love you

VERSE 3

Wish all the people throughout time knew what I know about you
How they harmed the ones you loved and how they tried to harm you too
But you repelled hatred with love and you invited friend and foe
And though the lies they speak pain me it’s that you’re gone that hurts the most
The more I remember you I love you

Chorus