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“Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand 鈥� but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never 颅being satisfied.”
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“Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.”
― Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study : Beginning to Begin
― Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study : Beginning to Begin

“He showed the fineness of his nature by being kinder to me after that misunderstanding than before. Nay, the very incident which, by my theory, must in some degree estrange me and him, changed, indeed, somewhat our relations; but not in the sense I painfully anticipated. An invisible, but a cold something, very slight, very transparent, but very chill: a sort of screen of ice had hitherto, all through our two lives, glazed the medium through which we exchanged intercourse. Those few warm words, though only warm with anger, breathed on that frail frost-work of reserve; about this time, it gave note of dissolution. I think from that day, so long as we continued friends, he never in discourse stood on topics of ceremony with me.”
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“To these women, the veil constitutes an extremely important part of the idea of 'getting dressed', whereas in the West the veil represents a symbol of male dominance..”
― Women Who Become Men: Albanian Sworn Virgins
― Women Who Become Men: Albanian Sworn Virgins

“In this world, if you like anything other than the Self (The Soul), it becomes vishaya 鈥� object of pleasure. From the moment you consider it worthy of liking; the veils of ignorance build up. And so you can never see its offensiveness.”
― Spirituality in Speech
― Spirituality in Speech

“However, very little thought, or for that matter, information, is given as to how Allah veils His Truths. One way that the Truth is veiled is through the veil of: the fear of appearing or becoming insane or 鈥渃razy.鈥� Other veils include: becoming or appearing a fool, the veil of obviousness, the veil of shame, the veil of no longer being concerned with 鈥渟tations鈥� on the path, the veil of behaving contrary to Shariah, the veil of heresy, and the veil of leaving the Path.”
― The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
― The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
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