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  • Indian&British-Author,Teacher&SufiJune 16, 1924
  • Indian&British-Author,Teacher&Sufi
  • June 16, 1924
As Ibn Arabi says: ‘Absolute existence is the source of all existence’.
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ANDAKI:tEFFORT IS NOT EFFORT WITHOUT ZAMAN, MAKAN, IKHWAN (RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT PEOPLE).
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People are always trying to understand.There is only one way to do that.It is to discover < + i + >why< + i + > you want to understand.
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The sight of God in woman is the most perfect of all." Ibn Arabi.
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The practice of the Sufis is too sublime to have a formal beginning,
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Who is the wrong person to criticise?You
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You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.
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Whatever goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.
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Saying of the ProphetTruthSpeaking the truth to the unjust is the best of holy wars.
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Sufism is, in operation, pragmatic.
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Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature
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Those who say ‘I am ready to learn’, or ‘I am not ready to learn’ are as often mistaken as they are correct in their surmise.
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To Him who has sense, a sign is enoughFor the heedless, however, a thousand expositions are not enough.
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Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society.
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Saying of the ProphetDistributionGod it is who gives: I am only a distributor.
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Saying of the ProphetThe BequestI have nothing to leave you except my family.
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You say that this society will come to an end, because societies always have done so. I wonder whether they have ended because they were not really societies at all.
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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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The Sufi teacher’s mission is to be in the service of those who can learn.
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To drown in treacle is just as unpleasant as to drown in mud.People today are in danger of drowning in information; but because they have been taught information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be.If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.The lightning said to the oak tree: 'Stand aside, or take what is coming to you!
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Whoever is to be wise despises himself. Only the ignorant trust their own judgement.
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Saying of the Mulla Nasrudin. If I survive this life without dying, I'll be surprised.
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Practise your knowledge, for knowledge without practice is a body without life
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Saying of the ProphetThe JudgeA man appointed to be a judge has been killed without a knife.
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Saying of the ProphetPrivacyWhoever invades people´s privacy corrupts them.
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… when we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the other is supposed to believe and what he is expected to do as a consequence of that belief.
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Saying of the ProphetWomenWomen are the twin-halves of men.
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Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's?A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.
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Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher.
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If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul.
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Why do people always wonder whether books are any good, without wondering whether they are themselves in a state to profit from them?
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Unbelief and belief are both marching on His road, while both are saying, ‘He is one and He has no associates’.
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Each flies with its own kind: pigeon with pigeon, hawk with hawk.
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Until you can understand illogicality, and the meaningfulness of it, shun the Sufis except for limited, precise, self-evident services.
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Sufis (the name for the realised individual, not the learner or follower) are reunited with objective Reality and Unity.
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In the modern world we are in a paradoxical situation; because although in theory man knows that he can extend his attention to something and then remove it, he very often does not do so. In many areas he does not look at something and then detach from it, and look at something else.Once he has found something to interest himself in, he cannot detach himself from it efficiently, and therefore he cannot be objective. Note that, in most if not all languages, we have words like 'objectivity' which leads people to imagine that they have it, or can easily use it. That is equivalent (in reality if not in theory) to saying 'I know the word “gold”, so I am rich.
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Trust is needed before lessons can be learnt.
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Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew.
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Three things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity. Ali, the Lion of Islam.
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Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.
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Saying of the ProphetOppressionWhen oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest.
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You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to do, and you do know what that means.
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Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied.
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Three ThingsThree things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity.(Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet),
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The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying.It was:'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?
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The clothes may vary, but the person is the same.
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Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaAdherent:Someone who will believe anything except what he should.
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Whoever has not first dug a well, should not steal a minaret.
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Much travel is needed before the raw man is ripened.
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People in this civilization are starving in the middle of plenty. This is a civilization that is going down, not because it hasn't got the knowledge that would save it, but because nobody will use the knowledge.
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Saying of the Prophet. The Bequest: I have nothing to leave you except my family.
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Sufism is that which succeeds in bringing to man the High Knowledge.
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You can learn more in half an hour's direct contact with a source of knowledge (no matter the apparent reason for the contact or the subject of the transaction) than you can in years of formal effort.
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The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.
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The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is.
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The process of learning is the process of discovering what really exists.
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When the human being says:'It is not true...'He may mean:'I don't know about it, so I think it is untrue.'Or:'I don't like it.
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The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.
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Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests.
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In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.
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