The Sufis Quotes

The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so.

The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoeAs he does for a polished mirror for the King.

Hariri says, in his Maqamat: ‘Safety is on the river’s BANK.

Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied.

Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything.” Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi.

Satisfaction is a treasure which does not decay.Proverb

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

The hearts of the noble are the graves of confidences.

SOVEREIGNTYSovereignty is a wind of change. (Hariri)

The worst of sages is a visitor of princes

Sufism is the essence of all religions.

There are as many paths to Truth as there are souls of men.

The bowl is warmer than the soup.

Before the antidote arrives from Iraq The man with snake-bite will be dead.

He who sleeps on the Road will lose either his hat or his head.

Angels are the powers hidden in the faculties and organs of man

Sandals. The Sufi teacher Ghulam-Shah was asked what pattern he used in formulating his courses for disciples. He said: 'Barefoot until you can get sandals, sandals until you can manage boots.

Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time.

All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language.

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

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.

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.

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

Saying of the ProphetReflectionThe Faithful are mirrors, one to the other.

Saying of the ProphetObjectsIt is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf.

Saying of the ProphetLoveDo you think you love your Creator? Love your fellow-creature first.

Saying of the ProphetPrivacyWhoever invades people´s privacy corrupts them.

If you will not reprove yourself, ’ Saadi says, ‘you will not welcome reproof from another.