The Sufis Quotes

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

The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.

He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.

It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.

Words have to die if humans are to live.

Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.

The Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction.

Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.

To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.

If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.

If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul.

Assume that you are part-hypocrite and part heedless, and you will not be far wrong.

There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.

You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to go, and you do know what that means.

Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.

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

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

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

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia

Sufism is known by means of itself.

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'.

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

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

Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition

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

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

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.

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.

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

ANDAKI: EFFORT 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)

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.

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.