Top Sufis Quotes

Not a believer in the mosque am I,Nor a disbeliever with his rites am I.I am not the pure amongst the impure,I am neither Moses nor Pharaoh.Bulleh, I know not who I am.Not in the holy books am I,Nor d...

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.

When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial.

Sufism expresses what I have found to be Real.

Whoever has not first dug a well, should not steal a minaret.

Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time.

SOVEREIGNTYSovereignty is a wind of change. (Hariri)

When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration.

No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue.

Sufism is experiential

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.

Sufism is, in fact, not a mystical system, not a religion, but a body of knowledge.

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

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'.

When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.

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

Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.

None meets harm who knows his capacity.

My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, al...