The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.
Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time.
Treat this world as I do, like a wayfarer; like a horseman who stops in the shade of a tree for a time, and then moves on.
Saying of the Prophet.Lies, promises, trustHe is not of mine who lies, breaks a promise or fails in his trust.
Now that I have found thee, I know that in the first step I took, I moved away from thee.
Sufism is experiential
When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial.
Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaDrugs: Source of the mystical experience of the ignorant.
SOVEREIGNTYSovereignty is a wind of change. (Hariri)
Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do.
The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds
Whoever has not first dug a well, should not steal a minaret.
No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue.
Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought.
When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration.
If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled.
The mine is always bigger than the gem.
The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.
THE BIRD AND THE WATERA bird which has not heard of fresh waterDips his beak in salt-water year after year.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)