Sufism Quotes

An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair)

If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love.

Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.

The Sufis have said: ‘The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.

You may have forgotten the Way: But those who came beforeDid not forget you.Saying of Master Bahaudin Naqshband of Bokhara

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaDrugs: Source of the mystical experience of the ignorant.

Saying of the ProphetStruggleThe holy warrior is he who struggles with himself.

Saying of the ProphetHumilityHumility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety.

Saying of the ProphetDeathDie before your death.

You yourself are your own barrier – rise from within it.

The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it’.

Saying of the ProphetSleepSleep is the brother of death.

They have fixed our nutrition and arranged our life-span. More than this, and ahead of this, efforts will not be productive.

But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school.

Make mankind your dwelling place.

What you have to learn is how to find the unworldly in everything.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it from happening.

If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth…

it was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'.

But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'.

Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always the same.

You can perceive a person's aspiration if it is genuine, because this creates a change in the emanations from such a person.

The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun'Nun, by aiming for 'being as you were, where you were, before you were'.

Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.

If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.

Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests.

Sufis hold that the superior experience and knowledge comes to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity, and earning of it.

Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher.

Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

Mediation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

… the Sufi attitude is: ‘Let the real truth, whatever it may be, be revealed to me’.

People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives.

Islam and Sufism are one. Teaching that to understand Islam one must be a lover, how can one understand Islam when the heart is empty of love.

Saying of the Prophet. The Bequest: I have nothing to leave you except my family.

Saying of the ProphetAngerYou ask for a piece of advice. I tell you : 'Do not get angry.' He is strong who can withhold anger.

You only truly possess that which you cannot lose in a shipwreck.

Saying of the ProphetHelping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Muslim or not.

Teaching:One hour's teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.Saying of the Prophet

Saying of the ProphetMonkishnessNo monkery in Islam.

Saying of the ProphetObligation to LearnThe pursuit of knowledge is obligatory on every Muslim.

Saying of the ProphetTruthSpeaking the truth to the unjust is the best of holy wars.

Saying of the ProphetTHE PEOPLEIt is the people who are God's family.(Muhammad the Prophet)

Saying of the ProphetSome behaviourI am like a man who has lighted a fire, and all the creeping things have rushed to burn themselves in it.

Saying of the ProphetThe BequestI have nothing to leave you except my family.

Saying of the ProphetFoodNobody has eaten better food than that won by his own labour.

Saying of the ProphetAccusationsAnyone reviling a brother for a sin will not himself die before committing it.

Saying of the Prophet.Lies, promises, trustHe is not of mine who lies, breaks a promise or fails in his trust.

Saying of the ProphetTasksWhoever makes all his tasks one task, God will help him in his other concerns.

Saying of the ProphetPracticeWho are the learned? Those who put into practice what they know.

Saying of the ProphetOppressionWhen oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest.