Wisdom Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

THE HEAVENSTo the mallet of the Highest MindThe heavens are the smallest possible ball.(Akhlaq-i-Mohsini)

THE BIRD AND THE WATERA bird which has not heard of fresh waterDips his beak in salt-water year after year.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)

Knowledge. How curious that a man who closes his hand upon air so often thinks that he has a ruby within his grasp.

Rust through washing never became white.

No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue.

None meets harm who knows his capacity.

Now that I have found thee, I know that in the first step I took, I moved away from thee.

Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: ‘Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue’.

A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years’ sincere, obedient dedication.

Abu-Yaqub al-Susi: 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.

Better to quarrel with a friend than to support enemies.

The mine is always bigger than the gem.

Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.

Truth has no form.

Sayings of the ProphetTrust: Trust in God – but tie your camel first.

One lie will keep out forty truths.

Whoever gives knowledge to a fool loses itAnd who keeps it from the deserving does wrong.

ServiceI will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.Rabia el-Adawia.

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

The people of the world have a fixed destiny. But the spiritually developed receive what is “not” in their destiny.

Voice in the nightA voice whispered to me last night: 'There is no such thing as a voice whispering in the night!