43 quotes found
“Everyone does not know the secrets of TruthThe States of Truth are not evidential.”
“Sufism is always systematised only for limited or transitory periods: because Sufism is primarly instrumental, not for enjoyment or display.”
“Those who cant, try: those who can, dont have to.”
“None meets harm who knows his capacity.”
“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.”
“Truth has no form.”
“Whoever gives knowledge to a fool loses itAnd who keeps it from the deserving does wrong.”
“The people of the world have a fixed destiny. But the spiritually developed receive what is not in their destiny.”
“Sufism, the "secret tradition," is not available on the basis of assumptions which belong to another world, the world of intellect.”
“The would-be students wish to transcend books.But, ask yourselves: if someone says that books do not contain wisdom, and yet he writes books; books do not contain Sufism, and yet he continues to pu...”
“The Seeking of the Master. Musa Najib was asked why he charged a fee from those who came to his sessions; and why he often did not even address his audience. He said: 'I charge for this object less...”
“It is your duty to do your best. It is not, however, your birth-right to prevail.”
“Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything.” Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi.”
“Unbelief and belief are both marching on His road, while both are saying, ‘He is one and He has no associates’.”
“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.”
“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?”
