Shah Quotes
Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form.
None should say: ‘I can trust, ’ or ‘I cannot trust’ until he is master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.
The lightning said to the oak tree: ‘Stand aside, or take what is coming to you!
Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and “orders” are in fact only of archaeological interest.
The Sufi is one who does what others do – when it is necessary. He is also one who does what others cannot do – when it is indicated.
if... says: 'Do not be greedy, be generous', you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity
Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.
Remember the proverb: 'A sign is enough for the alert, but a thousand counsels are not enough for the negligent.
Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long.
One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.
There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.
When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.
Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.
RemedyYour medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.Hazrat Ali
When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured
When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge
Sometimes you just have to die a little inside in order to be reborn and rise again as a stronger and wiser version of you..!!
When Fortune knocks, open the door, ' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.
If a Manx cat tells you that it is trying to preserve its long, beautiful tail, you don't have to believe it - especially if you have eyes.
While you’re hating your life just because you can’t get what you want, someone is praying to have a life like yours..!!
Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's?A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.
Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others.
Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
Saying of the ProphetInk and BloodThe ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.
Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible.
The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it.
...action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.
Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?
All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner.
You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to do, and you do know what that means.
They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.
The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.
He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.
It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.
Words have to die if humans are to live.
Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.
The Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.
Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction.
Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.