Reading The Forty Rules of Love

(http://yasayyidi.wordpress.com/category/tasawwuf/)

Konya, October 17, 1244

Before passing through the gates of a town I've never visited, I take a minute to salute its saints - the dead and the living, the known and the hidden. Never in my life have I arrived at a new place without getting the blessing of its saints first. It makes no difference to me whether that place belongs to Muslims, Christians or Jews. I believe that the saints are beyond such trivial nominal distinctions. A saint belongs to all humanity.

(page 90)

(Elif Shafak)