Sufis Quotes - Page 5

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’.

DeathIf he is a good man, death will be a release;If he is a bad one, it will release others from him.

Saying of the ProphetSleepSleep is the brother of death.

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.

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

People talk about ‘service, effort, love, knowledge’. But with knowledge you know what love is, and what it is not.

Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality.

ANDAKI:tEFFORT IS NOT EFFORT WITHOUT ZAMAN, MAKAN, IKHWAN (RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT PEOPLE).

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

Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years’ time.

The practice of the Sufis is too sublime to have a formal beginning,

The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man… therefore increase your necessity.

Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path.

Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism.

Much religious teaching in the world is in reality a confused or deteriorated form, very different from its roots.

We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory.

You will always have doubts, but only discover them at a useful time for your weakness to point them out.

The sight of God in woman is the most perfect of all." Ibn Arabi.

Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaTruthful man:He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy.

Day and NightThe night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing.

Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

Sufism is known by means of itself.

Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.

When you are still fragmentated, lacking certainty — what difference does it make what your decisions are?

And there are many people, both Moslem and Christian, who have a good grasp of each others0 conceptions of surrender to God an other principles. But the widespread existence of bias, misinformation and lack of knowledge (…) militate against the effectiveness of dialogue, (…) by the most subtle and one of the most effective of instruments, the subconscious, almost the subliminal, introduction of hostility.

Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.

The important place held by Jesus among the world's six hundred million Moslems... and the agreement of both religions about the necessity for surrender to God as the means of salvation, thus makes it comparatively easy for a Moslem to address himself to Christians: the sympathy and the history are already there.

From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.

He had found riches beyond worldly imagination. He had found the never ending well of love.

Soroosh Shahrivar

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

When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?

Sufism expresses what I have found to be Real.

Efrat Cybulkiewicz

When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge

The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?

When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.

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

Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.

When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.

There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.

Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long.

Remember the proverb: 'A sign is enough for the alert, but a thousand counsels are not enough for the negligent.

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.

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

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.

Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and “orders” are in fact only of archaeological interest.

However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can’t run away from your own feet.

The lightning said to the oak tree: ‘Stand aside, or take what is coming to you!

None should say: ‘I can trust,’ or ‘I cannot trust’ until he is master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form.

A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands.

The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire.

The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows.

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