Shams Tabrizi Quotes

There are more fake guides, teachers in the world than stars. The real guide is the one who makes you see your inner beauty, not the one who wants to be admired and followed.

Instead of resisting to changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think ‘My life will be upside down’ don’t worry. How do you know down is not better than upside?

It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come.

When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness.

Love is a travel. All travelers whether they want or not are changed. No one can travel into love and remain the same.

Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.

You learn by reading but understand by LOVE.

The real dirt is not outside, but inside, in our hearts. We can wash all stains with water. The only one we can't remove is the grudge and the bad intentions sticking to our hearts.

Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.

When a sincere woman begins to dance, the seven heavens, the earth, and all creatures begin to dance.

The past is a fog on our minds. The future? A complete dream. We can't neither guess the future, neither change the past.

When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness. Human should be like a pot. As the pot is hold by its emptiness inside, human is hold by the awareness of his nothingness.

Wherever you go, east, west, north or south, think of it as a journey into yourself! The one who travels into itself travels the world.

For anew Self to be born, hardship is necessary. Just as clay needs to go through intense heat to become strong, Love can only be perfected in pain.

You can be everything in life but the important thing is to be a good person.

You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.

If you expect respect from others, show it first to yourself. You can't expect from others what you don't give to yourself.

Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want.

There may be one fault in a man that conceals a thousand qualities, or one excellence that conceals a thousand faults. The little indicates much.

The quest for Love changes us. There is no seeker among those who search for Love who has not matured on the way. The moment you start looking for Love, you start to change within and without.

To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart.

A good man complains of no one; he does not look to faults.

Surrendering is not a weakness. At the contrary it is strength. The surrender stops living in boiling water and starts living in a secure place.

If you are insulted, if you are accused, if they gossip about you, don't say anything bad. Don't be the one who sees the shame, be the one who corrects it.

Most of conflicts and tensions are due to language. Don't pay so much attention to the words. In love’s country, language doesn't have its place. Love's mute.

When you oppose the shaykh, it's like the slave who kills himself over a quarrel with his master. 'Hey, why are you killing yourself over a quarrel?' He says, 'So my master will suffer loss.'

The salat can be made up for, but there is no making up for false show or outward worship without presence.

Being the companion of the folk of this world is fire. There must be an Abraham if the fire is not going to burn [you].

Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart.

Whoever lives as he sees fit will not die as he sees fit.

'Alms in secret extinguish the wrath of the Lord' means you are so immersed in sincerity and in preserving that sincerity that you have no pleasure in giving alms.

If the human being is a proud and honorable creature, he shouldn't forget to act that way, even if he falls, even if the whole world is against him, even if he ends as a slave.

If parts are always changing, the whole remains the same. A dead good man is replaced by a good man, a dead bad man is replaced by a bad man. While the whole remains the same, every day is different.