Shah Quotes

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.

MAGHRIBI: Learning is in activity. Learning through words alone is minor activity.

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

Much smoke has been seen, and caused great fear of fire — even when no fire ensued.

Man has less than he suspects of: Time, Friends, Hopes, Qualities.Proverb

A stolen kiss is not easily returned.

You will never reach Mecca, I fear: for you are on the road to Turkestan.

It will pass, whatever it is.

You make me a sinner if you stop me giving you hospitality.

Take the straight path, even if it is long: marry no widow, even if she is a houri.

What goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.

The power of Allah: no sound, no shape, no form. But when it manifests, none can resist it.

SENTENCES OF THE KHAJAGANRUDBARI : Heart to heart is an essential means of passing on the secrets of the Path.

No colour comes after black.

Sufism is experience, and hence not to be defined – imprisoned – in perennial, static categories.

Sufism is, in fact, not a mystical system, not a religion, but a body of knowledge.

Learning without action is like wax without honey.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)

Even if false gold makes a man happy:At the mint it will be identified.

A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without the bird.

What do I sing, and what does my tambourine sing?