1,330 quotes found
“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.”
“No colour comes after black.”
“Sufism is experience, and hence not to be defined – imprisoned – in perennial, static categories.”
“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?”
“Dye your hair, certainly. But what can you do for your face?”
“THE HEAVENSTo the mallet of the Highest MindThe heavens are the smallest possible ball.(Akhlaq-i-Mohsini)”
“You may be able to get the bone down your throat But if it reaches your stomach it will tear your navel.(Gulistan)”
“Whoever knows God, does not (any longer) say “God”.”
“Whoever has taught me one letter has made me his slave.”
“Rust through washing never became white.”
“Those who can’t, try: those who can, don’t have to.”
