Sufism Quotes

Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets.

The Apparent is the Bridge to the Real

A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years’ sincere, obedient dedication.

If you have two shirts, sell one and with the money buy a flower’.

If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled.

Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: ‘Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue’.

Now that I have found thee, I know that in the first step I took, I moved away from thee.

None meets harm who knows his capacity.

No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue.

Give and TakeThe Chief takes less than he is givenAnd gives more than he has taken.

Those who can’t, try: those who can, don’t have to.

If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent.

Rust through washing never became white.

The bird which has no knowledge of pure water, has his beak in salt water all year round.

Whoever has taught me one letter has made me his slave.

To Him who has sense, a sign is enoughFor the heedless, however, a thousand expositions are not enough.

I ask about the sky, but the answer is about a rope.

Whatever goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.

It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true.

Sufism is education, in that it has a body of knowledge which it transmits to those who have not got it.

Sufi Teachers are not, as you might hope, people who make you feel peace and harmony.

Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness?

Sufism is that which succeeds in bringing to man the High Knowledge.

What you are pleased to call Sufism is merely the record of past method.

Before garden, vine or grape was in the world, " writes one, "our soul was drunken with immortal wine.

Brave is the thief who carries a lamp in his hand.

The definition of the word 'finished' is: 'This word means finished.

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.

Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.

Information about the activities of one body of Sufis may be harmful to the potential of another.

Nothing cheap without reason.

Until you can understand illogicality, and the meaningfulness of it, shun the Sufis except for limited, precise, self-evident services.

When sense has left a head, it should be called a tail.

Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do. Saadi teaches: ‘when the generous promise, they perform

BARQI: AESTHETICS IS ONLY THE LOWEST FORM OF PERCEPTION OF THE REAL.

If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write.

A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information.

I am the Real, for I have not ceased to be real – through the Real.

If the father cannot, the son will finish the task.

No effort makes a black crow into a white hawk.

Pick up a bee from kindness, and learn the limitations of kindness.

Have the nature of a dervish: then wear a stylish cap.

The sort of man who, throwing a stone upon the ground, would miss.

Better the demon which makes you improve than the angel who threatens.

As Ibn Arabi says: ‘Absolute existence is the source of all existence’.

Be kind to the hawk and harm the sparrow.

One day the cub will become a wolf, even if it has been reared among the sons of man.

Each flies with its own kind: pigeon with pigeon, hawk with hawk.

THE BIRD AND THE WATERA bird which has not heard of fresh waterDips his beak in salt-water year after year.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)

THE HEAVENSTo the mallet of the Highest MindThe heavens are the smallest possible ball.(Akhlaq-i-Mohsini)