We used this text in class: http://themathesontrust.org/papers/islam/ibnataallah-hikam.pdf

Some select Hikam I would like to post:

Hikam 14:
The Cosmos is all darkness.
It is illumined only by the manifestation of God in it.
Whoever sees the Cosmos and does not contemplate Him
in it or by it or before it or after it is in need of light
and is veiled from the sun of gnosis
by the clouds of created things.

Hikam 48:
A sign of the heart’s death
is the absence of sadness
over the acts of obedience you have neglected
and the abandonment of regret
over the mistakes you have made.

Hikam 56:
Light is the army of the heart,
just as darkness is the army of the soul.
So when God wishes to come to the help of His servant,
He furnishes him with armies of lights
and cuts off from him the reinforcements
of darkness and alterities.

77:
The gnostic is not one who,
when making a symbolic allusion,
finds God nearer to himself than his symbolic allusion.
Rather, the gnostic is the one who,
because of his self-extinction in His Being
and self-absorption in contemplating Him,
has no symbolic allusion.

85:
Outwardly, creatures are an illusion;
but, inwardly, they are an admonition.
Thus, the soul looks at the illusory exterior
while the heart looks at the admonitory interior

104 (excerpt):
“The daytime sun goes down at night,
But the sun of gnostic hearts never goes down.”

115:
The devotees and ascetics are alienated from everything
only because of their absence from God in everything.
Had they contemplated Him in everything,
they would not have been alienated from anything.

120:
Ritual prayer is the place of intimate conversations
and a mine of reciprocal acts of purity
wherein the regions of the innermost being are expanded
and the rising gleams of light shine forth.
He knows of the existence of weakness in you,
so He made the number of ritual prayers small;
and He knew of your need of His grace,
so He multiplied their fruitful results

144:
The most ignorant of all people
is the one who abandons the certitude he has
for an opinion people have

161
Your wanting people to know your specialness
is a proof for your lack of truthfulness in
your slavehood.

205:
Sometimes Spiritual lights descend but finds
the heart filled with images of physical things
and thus goes back to where it came.

245
He placed you in the middle realm between His physical world
and metaphysical one to inform you of the loftiness
of your rank among His creatures.
You are a gem enclosed by the shells of created forms.

259
Sometimes a long life is fruitless.
And sometimes a short life is extremely fruitful.