Sufism Quotes - Page 6

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaDrugs: Source of the mystical experience of the ignorant.

The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition.

Truth has no form.

Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?'.

Dye your hair, certainly. But what can you do for your face?

Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.

Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy.

Sufilere sohbet gerek Ahilere ahret gerek Mecnunlara Leyla gerek Bana seni gerek seni

Nothing cheap without reason.

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.

Religion, for instance, cannot be accepted or rejected out of hand, until the student knows exactly what religion means.

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 do I dwell in bhang or wine,Nor do I live in a drunken haze,Nor in sleep or waking known.Bulleh, I know not who I am.Not in happiness or in sorrow am I found.I am neither pure nor mired in filthy ground.Not of water nor of land,Nor am I in air or fire to be found.Bulleh, I know not who I am.Not an Arab nor Lahori,Not a Hindi or Nagouri,Nor a Muslim or Peshawari,Not a Buddhist or a Christian.Bulleh, I know not who I am.Secrets of religion have I not unravelled,I am not of Eve and Adam.Neither still nor moving on,I have not chosen my own name!Bulleh, I know not who I am.From first to last, I searched myself.None other did I succeed in knowing.Not some great thinker am I.Who is standing in my shoes, alone?Bulleh, I know not who I am.

I ask about the sky, but the answer is about a rope.

RemedyYour medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.Hazrat Ali

Put down your glass, it is time to dance. If you want to get drunk all you need is to drink love. Put down your pipe and do away with these childish toys. If you want to get high all you need is to breathe love. Now, can I have this dance?

If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write.

A Sufi has a right to be served, but he has no right to demand. Maruf Karkhi of Khorasan

Definition of a SufiTo learn, people must give up a great deal, and this includes ritual as something from which they imagine they might learn. It is to emphasise this that Abu-Yaqub al-Susi, quoted in Kalabadhi's Taaruf, states that 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.

Is your division of Understanding into Greater and Lesser common to all Sufis? Nothing which is put into words is common to all Sufis.

It will pass, whatever it is.

Saying of the ProphetSleepSleep is the brother of death.

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.

However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can’t run away from your own feet.

Saying of the ProphetLoveDo you think you love your Creator? Love your fellow-creature first.

Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always the same.

There is something in man which can detect real love. We rub it out, or muffle it, by substitute-love.

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.

Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained

Counsels of BahaudinYou want to be filled. But something which is full has first to be emptied. Empty yourself so that you will fill properly, by observing these counsels, which you can do as duties to yourself:FirstNever follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.

Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness?

The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it’.

Everyone does not know the secrets of TruthThe States of Truth are not evidential.

Day and NightThe night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing.

The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?

The lover drinksand the cup-bearer pours.The lover thinksbut the cup-bearer knows:love begets love.Since this wine is love,then this cup is love,then this tavern is love,then this life is love.

Love is an involuntary gift that manifests unplanned.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPoverty: The result of marriage.

Put down your stones. Why are you breaking the window when God has left the door wide open? If you are afraid, lover, follow me. I will guide the way.

Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers.

The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss.

Whoever knows God, does not (any longer) say “God”.

Do not dwell upon whether you will put yourself into the hands of a teacher. You are always in his hands.

If a pot can multiply. One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour returned them, together with one extra one – a very tiny pot. 'What is this?' asked Nasrudin. 'According to law, I have given you the offspring of your property which was born when the pots were in my care,' said the joker. Shortly afterwards Nasrudin borrowed his neighbour's pots, but did not return them. The man came round to get them back. 'Alas!' said Nasrudin, 'they are dead. We have established, have we not, that pots are mortal?'.

it was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'.

SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN:Self-justification is worse than the original offence.

THE BIRD AND THE WATERA bird which has not heard of fresh waterDips his beak in salt-water year after year.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)

We seek the fire of the spark that is already within us.

The feeling cannot be described in words, it's mystical; I am changing. Perhaps the soul needed silence so that it can shout to hear the echo from the walls of my heart. It did heard something, Sufism!

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

God said to him [Eblis], 'You have become proud.' He replied, 'If I had been with you but a moment my pride would have been justified; I have been with you for centuries.

Saying of the ProphetHumilityHumility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety.

A Sufi is one who is not bound by anything nor does he bind anything

Form is useful, but it is secondary.

Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition

Sufism is the essence of all religions.

What you are pleased to call Sufism is merely the record of past method.

Our heads are filled with ‘knowledge’, a knowledge that in some areas pre-empts our seeing anything at all.

Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual leader Jelalludin Rumi during the early 1990s when the unparalleled lyrical grace, philosophical brilliance, and spiritual daring of his work took modern Western readers completely by surprise. The impact of its soulful beauty and the depth of its profound humanity were so intense that they reportedly prompted numerous individuals to spontaneously compose poetry.

With enough information, it is almost impossible "not" to predict people's action.