“When you say the name of Khezr (or Khadir) in company you should always add the greeting "Salaam aliekum!" since he may be there - immortal and anonymous, engaged on some mysterious karmic errand. Perhaps he'll hint of his identity by wearing green, or by revealing knowledge of the occult and hidden. But he's something of a spy, and if you have no need to know he's unlikely to tell you. Still, one of his functions is to convince skeptics of the existence of the marvelous, to rescue those who are lost in deserts of doubt and dryness. So he's needed now more than ever, and surely still moves among us playing his great game.” MysticismSufismSufiThe Green KnightGreen ManHakim BeyPeter Lamborn WilsonGreen KnightKhidr Book:Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam Source: Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam
“Among the sufis, one attains purity not by ritual ablution, not by faith and worship, not by deed or merit, but by direct knowledge, experience, certainty, the drunkenness of ecstatic realization. Only this intoxication truly purifies the soul, because with this "wine" one becomes lost, and finds oneself, within the heart. One loses all separative delusions, the dirt of a muffled consciousness, and attains the One. This is to wander nude in the bazaar, like a naked Qalandar. But if the bazaar is shocked, then scandal belongs to the bazaar, not the dervish. Like a drunkard, the suf loses his reputation in the world because the world has lost its reputation with him. The petty bazaar stands accused of hypocrisy; the naked man stands before God.” MysticismSufismSufi QuotesSufi PoetryOccultismHakim BeySufism QuotesQalandarIslamic MysticismQalandar Quotes Book:Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy Source: Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy
“Art has little to do with made things, but rather concerns a state of mind, a way of being, a gesture that cannot be betrayed, a life” ArtMysticismSufismAnarchismHakim BeyPeter Lamborn WilsonMoorish Science Book:Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam Source: Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam