43 quotes found
“SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN:Self-justification is worse than the original offence.”
“It is not Sufism if it does not perform its function for you. A cloak is no longer a cloak if it does not keep a man warm.”
“It is your duty to do your best. It is not, however, your birth-right to prevail.”
“ScrapsThe scraps from the meal of the Emir are larger than the gifts of halwa from the merchant. Timur Fazil”
“Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything. Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi.”
“Everything man needs is in the world.”
“Unbelief and belief are both marching on His road, while both are saying, He is one and He has no associates.”
“Sufism is that which succeeds in bringing to man the High Knowledge.”
“What you are pleased to call Sufism is merely the record of past method.”
“Before garden, vine or grape was in the world," writes one, "our soul was drunken with immortal wine.”
“The definition of the word 'finished' is: 'This word means finished.”
“Information about the activities of one body of Sufis may be harmful to the potential of another.”
“Nothing cheap without reason.”
“A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information.”
“It will pass, whatever it is.”
“Sufism is experience, and hence not to be defined imprisoned in perennial, static categories.”
“What do I sing, and what does my tambourine sing?”
“Dye your hair, certainly. But what can you do for your face?”
“Eat what you desire, but dress like other people.”
“He is the completed Man who, from his completeness, performs, with his Mastership, the work of a slave.”
