T hose who have striven for Our sake, We guide them to Our ways (Koran 29:96). Al-Junayd said: "[The verse means] Those who have striven against their desires and repented for our sake, we shall guide them to the ways of sincerity. And one cannot struggle against his enemy outwardly except he who struggles against these enemies inwardly. Then whoever is given victory over them will be victorious over his enemy. And whoever is defeated by them, his enemy defeats him." quote 3134 | Al-Junayd Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, al-Fawa'id, ed. Muhammad `Ali Qutb (al-Iskandariyya: Dar al-Da`wa, 1992) p. 50.
T asawwuf means that Allah causes you to die to your self and gives you life in Him. quote 3132 | Al-Junayd
N ot the profusion of prayer and fasting, but wholeness of the breast and selflessness. quote 3131 | Al-Junayd In al-Qushayri, Kitab al-Sama` in al-Rasa'il al-Qushayriyya (Sidon and Beirut: al-Maktaba al-`Asriyya, 1970) p. 60.
T he journey from this world to the next (to give up worldly things for spiritual things) is easy for the believer. The journey from the creatures to the Creator is hard. The journey from the self to God is very hard. And to be able to abide in God is harder still. quote 2865 | Al-Junayd Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.38
