Frithjof Schuon Archive

Mâ shâ’a ’Llâh: “As God wills.”Allâhu karîm: “God is generous.”These are the two pillars of Islam —In God’s Will, the soul becomes still.

The efficacy of the essential is immediate;What comes from the periphery, works only in an indirect manner —If is based on earthly experience,And benefits the spirit in a secondary way;Yet any path to God is wonderful.

Everything in life could make us sad —Why so? Because of the evanescence of things.But be thou grateful and of good cheer, and standWith one foot in Eternity.Earthly existence can be what it will —In the spiritual life, there is no time.

One day the great world wheel will stop.Think not this is the end of all ends —After each night there comes a new day.The world wheel rests — then continues again.