Nafs Quotes

Nafs Quote of the day

Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.

Your nafs (soul/desires) is your first battlefield. If you are victorious over it, then you will find the other battlefields easier.

If you want an enemy, the soul (nafs) is sufficient. If you want advice, death is sufficient.

One of the greatest tazkiya (purification) of the nafs (self) is to part with your money and to give it to people who deserve it.

Change your 'Nafs', change the world.

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

Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego.

To blame others for our misfortunes is always a victory for the nafs.

There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is the ocean of life, and the grave is the ocean of distress

My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.

For every Pharoah there is a Moses.

Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.

You must know everything that God has forbidden you so as to be able to avoid it, for the one who does not recognize evil falls into it.

Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it.

The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.

To say "yes" to the Sufi way is to say "no" to imagined escapes.