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    This document contains quotes and teachings from various spiritual figures about living in the world. It provides guidance that [1] everything in the world has an end and goal of freedom, [2] this world is a place of preparation and lessons where we should choose less over more and be satisfied, and [3] while the world itself is not bad, becoming consumed by desires and forgetting God is what leads us astray.

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    This document contains quotes and teachings from various spiritual figures about living in the world. It provides guidance that [1] everything in the world has an end and goal of freedom, [2] this world is a place of preparation and lessons where we should choose less over more and be satisfied, and [3] while the world itself is not bad, becoming consumed by desires and forgetting God is what leads us astray.

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    Living in the World

    Each and every part of the world is a snare* for the fool and a means of deliverance for the wise.

    — Rumi, Masnavi Book 6, Verse 4287

    (*deception, trap)

    Everything in the world of existence has an end and a goal. The end is maturity, and the goal is
    freedom. For example, the fruit grows on the tree until it is ripe and then falls. A farmer sows grain
    in the ground and tends it. It begins to grow, eventually seeds, and again becomes grain. It has
    returned to its original form. The circle is complete. Completing the circle of existence is freedom.

    — Nafasi

    This world is a place of preparation where one is given many lessons and passes many tests. Choose
    less over more in it. Be satisfied with what you have, even it is less than what others have. In fact,
    prefer to have less.

    This world is not bad — on the contrary, it is the field of the hereafter. What you plant here, you
    will reap there. This world is the way to eternal bliss and thereby is good — worthy to be cherished
    and to be praised.

    What is bad is what you do with the world when you become blind to the truth and totally
    consumed by your desires, lust and ambition for it. Our master the Prophet, in whom wisdom was
    as clear as crystal, was asked, “What is worldliness?” He answered, ”Everything that makes you
    heedless and causes you to forget your Lord.” Therefore the goods of this world are not harmful in
    themselves, but only when you let them render you forgetful, disobedient, and unaware of the Lord.

    — Ibn Arabi

    Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others.

    — Mohammad

    When you see beauty and perfection in this world, it is nothing but a sign of Him. A beautiful
    creature is merely a single blossom from the vast garden of God. But remember that a picture fades,
    a flower dies, and the reflection in the mirror is eclipsed by the real Light. It is God who is real and
    remains so forever. So, why waste your time over something that is here today and gone tomorrow?
    Go directly to the Source without delay.

    — Jami
    One day, the caliph Omar met a group of people who were sitting around doing nothing. He asked
    them wo they were. “We are those who put their affairs in the hands of God, and we trust in God,”
    they replied.

    “Indeed you do not!,” he retorted. “You are nothing but freeloaders, parasites upon other people’s
    efforts! Someone who truly trusts in God first plants seeds in the belly of this earth, then puts his
    affairs in the hand of God, the Sustainer!”

    — Ibn Arabi

    Send Thy peace O Lord, which is



    perfect and everlasting,

    that our souls may radiate peace.

    

    Send Thy peace O Lord, that we

    may think, act and speak harmoniously.

    

    Send Thy peace O Lord, that we

    may be contented and thankful for

    Thy bountiful gifts.

    

    Send Thy peace O Lord, that amidst

    our worldly strife, we may enjoy Thy bliss.

    

    Send Thy peace O Lord, that we

    may endure all, tolerate all, in the thought of

    Thy grace and mercy.

    

    Send Thy peace O Lord, that our lives

    may become a Divine vision and in Thy light,

    all darkness may vanish.

    

    Send Thy peace O Lord, our Father and Mother,

    that we Thy children on Earth may all

    unite in one family.

    Amen.

    — Hazrat Inayat Khan

    Someone asked the Prophet, “What is Islam?” He replied, “Purity of speech and charity.”

    — Hadith

    “If kindness were a visible creation, nothing that Allah has created would be more beautiful than it.”

    — Hadith

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