ONE SENTENCE ENIGMA'S

Puzzling paradoxes (or enigmas) intended to bend the mind towards Enlightenment.

ENIGMA : Brahman is Real. The world is illusion. Brahman is the world (R. Maharshi)

ENIGMA: "Everything is He. Everything is Not He" (Ibn Arabi)

ENIGMA : "I saw my Lord with the eye of my heart. I asked 'Who are Thou?' He said, 'Thou'" (Hallaj)  

ENIGMA : "None sees Him but He" (Ibn Arabi)

ENIGMA : "He is the Observer and the Observed" (Ibn Arabi)

ENIGMA: "When I love my servant... I become the eye through which he sees..." (Hadith. al-Bukhari)

ENIGMA: "By the Witness and the Witnessed" (Quran 85.3)

ENIGMA: "He is the Observer and the Observed" (Ibn Arabi)

ENIGMA : “He is the Seeker and the Sought” (Ibn Arabi)   

ENIGMA: "You are what you seek" (Rumi)

ENIGMA: "You are That" (Chandogya Upanishad 6.8.7) 

ENIGMA: "Vision does not comprehend Him but He comprehends all vision" (Quran 6.103)

ENIGMA "I saw my Lord with the eye of my heart. I asked 'Who are Thou?' He said, 'Thou'" (Hallaj) 

ENIGMA: "Me and thee signify duality and duality is illusion, for Unity [tawhid] alone is Truth" 

ENIGMA: The perennial question, "Who am I?" The answer: HU (هُوَ)

ENIGMA: Only the God inside me can realise the God above me. 

ENIGMA: In spiritual Awakening, the two converge; God grasps God (Meister Eckhart); Light upon Light. 

ENIGMA: “Only God knows God”. (Ibn Arabi) 

ENIGMA: "Know God through God", i'rafullah billah (Imam 'Ali)

ENIGMA: 

"Only one who has come to know God through God knows Him"  (Imam Jafar as-Sadiq)

ENIGMA: Only the Absolute can know the Absolute

ENIGMA: The God inside me invokes the God above me

ENIGMA: He is the invoker and the Invoked. (Ibn Arabi)

ENIGMA: The God inside me invokes the God above me. The primordial Self remembering itself. 

ENIGMA: He is the First and the Last, the Outward and the Inward.” (Quran 57:3)

Notes

* ENIGMA: “[In the beginning] there was only God and nothing else. And He is now as He [always] was” (Ibn Ata'illa)

* The Quran says, “He is the First and the Last, the Outward and the Inward” (57:3). Al-Zamakhsharī explains that “the Outward” signifies the One who is above all things while “the Inward” signifies the One who is within all things. Above all things and yet within all things. The Prophet ﷺ clarified the same meaning in his supplication: “O God... You are the Outward, and there is nothing above You; and You are the Inward, and there is nothing beneath You” (Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 2713).

* Obviously, this is dangerous territory which can lead to confusion and great error. Sufism refers to the highest mysteries of Oneness (tawhid) as The Secret (As-Sirr) which should not be revealed publicly because it can lead to misunderstanding and heresy.