Shah Quotes
Listen, I do care about you.If that time ever comes, when I say "I don't care", trust me, in that moment, I will be lying.
When you find yourself surrounded by sane people excited about your idea and lending support, you realize, perhaps, you are not as crazy as you think you are
I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems.You ask me what to do about them.It is my view that your real problem is that you are a member of the human race.Face that one first.
More or less we are all Selfish. When it's come to Friendship, I do think that fish cant jump onto the ship!
At End of my College Life I Must have to say: College Friends are One of Best Friends we ever had in Our Life
Before the Plan, there is an Idea. Before the Idea, there is a Purpose. Before the Purpose, there is Your Spirit...aching to express Itself
Saying of the Mulla Nasrudin. If I survive this life without dying, I'll be surprised.
Sufism, the "secret tradition, " is not available on the basis of assumptions which belong to another world, the world of intellect.
WisdomSufian said: 'The wisdom which is invisible but which sustains is a hundred times better than the appearance of wisdom, for that has itself to be sustained.
As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom.
Voice in the nightA voice whispered to me last night: 'There is no such thing as a voice whispering in the night!
The people of the world have a fixed destiny. But the spiritually developed receive what is “not” in their destiny.
He that is purified by love is pure
Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience and you will know'.
ServiceI will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.Rabia el-Adawia.
Whoever gives knowledge to a fool loses itAnd who keeps it from the deserving does wrong.
Sayings of the ProphetTrust: Trust in God – but tie your camel first.
But the minimum human duty is to serve others: it is no great attainment.
With enough information, it is almost impossible "not" to predict people's action.
Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble.
Three things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity. Ali, the Lion of Islam.
When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial.
To say "yes" to the Sufi way is to say "no" to imagined escapes.
That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information....but knowledge does not come in that manner.
A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information....The key is the teacher.
Whoever might perfume a scorpionWill not thereby escape its sting. Bahaudin Naqshband
Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.
I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.
Sufism is, in operation, pragmatic.
You will never reach Mecca, I fear: for you are on the road to Turkestan.
As Ibn Arabi says: ‘Absolute existence is the source of all existence’.
One day the cub will become a wolf, even if it has been reared among the sons of man.
MAGHRIBI: Learning is in activity. Learning through words alone is minor activity.
Much smoke has been seen, and caused great fear of fire — even when no fire ensued.
Man has less than he suspects of: Time, Friends, Hopes, Qualities.Proverb
