Sufi Wisdom Quotes

Sufi Wisdom Quote of the day

Farsi Couplet: Agar firdaus bar roo-e zameen ast, Hameen ast-o hameen ast-o hameen ast. English Translation: If there is a paradise on earth, It is this, it is this, it is this

Love was supposed to be the easiest path to divinity

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

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

Death is the protector of life and life is the process of death.

Spiritual growth is the gradual, I would say, transition from a God of tradition to a God of experience.

In the bosom of success lie not delights but deprivations

Much travel is needed before the raw man is ripened.

They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.

Sufism is known by means of itself.

We wish to become one thing or another, rather we wish to become everything and in this pursuit of becoming everything we only end up becoming idiots.

This life is but a dream. A state of sleep but how unfortunate that man's eyes open only when they are about to be closed (forever).

It is not long before those who are obedient in service obtain command.

In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom we do slavery.

He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps.

When the child is ill, the mother will know how to pray.

In reality, every reality is a veil over reality.

The ocean sleeps. The ocean wakes. And the waking of the ocean is the waking of the soul. At midnight wakefulness springs from within the ocean.

Life is not only Newton, it is also Milton.

Do not destroy anybody’s peace. You will find peace.

In love, there is no distinction between success and failure. If love remains then even separation is union otherwise even union is separation.

The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness.

One who has no beloved in the country can never love the country.

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

The mystic, identifying neither with his-her race-religion-gender nor with any mind-made blunder, lives and dies in One's splendor.

The world is ancient, but it has not lost its newness.

A man is happy who is happy with his Naseeb(allotted portion).

Sleep is the boundary between being/existence and not-being/non-existence.

He who is fortunately enlightened [the Sufi]Knows that sophistry is from the devil and love from Adam.

Investigation after declaration of submission leads astray.

Sufism expresses what I have found to be Real.

Sleep is a mirror of life in which can be seen the reflection of death.

When the eye becomes the heart, the heart becomes the eye.

It is necessary to note, " says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi).

At His door, what is the difference between Muslim and Christian, virtuous and guilty? At his door all are seekers and He the sought.

The totality of life cannot be understood, so runs Sufi teaching, if it is studied only through the methods which we use in everyday living.

The feet and their tappingWrite many a lovely coupletThe body dances to your rhythm O lordAfter all, you are the master and I a puppet

Practise your knowledge, for knowledge without practice is a body without life

Those who say ‘I am ready to learn’, or ‘I am not ready to learn’ are as often mistaken as they are correct in their surmise.

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

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

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.

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

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

Disappointment cannot exist without expectation. “The expected apricot is never as sweet when it reaches the mouth.

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

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