What do I sing, and what does my tambourine sing?

To say “yes” to the Sufi way is to say “no” to imagined escapes.

Salute to the Thief. Junaid of Baghdad was passing the scene of a public hanging, where a thief was on the scaffold. Junaid bowed towards the criminal. Someone asked him: ‘What did you do that?’...

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaTruthful man:He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy.

Saying of the ProphetPracticeWho are the learned? Those who put into practice what they know.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaIntellectual: One who knows no craft.

Assume that you are part-hypocrite and part heedless, and you will not be far wrong.

Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.

Dicho del ProfetaPráctica,Quiénes son los sabios? Aquéllos que ponen en práctica lo que saben.

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.

Golpéate tu mano en una piedra y espera que duela.

La paciencia es el alimento de la comprensión.

El Sufi está vivo al valor del tiempo, y es dado, a cada momento, lo que ese momento demanda.

Toda aproximación a un estudio o a un individuo debe comenzar con una apetencia de atención. Sin embargo…nunca debe acabar de esta manera.

bueno” y te mostraré que casi nunca usa la palabra.

Supón que eres en parte hipócrita y en parte incauto, y no estarás muy equivocado.

Conocimiento interno – Quieres volverte sabio en una lección: Primero conviértete en un verdadero ser humano.

Cualquier cosa puede interponerse entre tú y el conocimiento, si eres inepto para éste.

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all’.

Continuously, in commemoration of the FriendWe drank wine, even before the creation of the vine.

Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do.

The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.

Opportunity’s precious, and time is a sword.

Saying of the ProphetPrivacyWhoever invades people´s privacy corrupts them.

I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems.You ask me what to do about them.It is my view that your real problem is that you are a member...

if… says: ‘Do not be greedy, be generous’, you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the “veils” which have to be dissolved in the mind.

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you – but: what did you learn?

… the Sufi attitude is: ‘Let the real truth, whatever it may be, be revealed to me’.

Un préstamo es las tijeras de la amistadLa lengua de un hombre puede cortar su gargantaLa jaula no tiene valor sin el pájaro.

Un pájaro que no ha oído hablar del agua fresca hunde su pico en agua salada año tras año.

La herrumbre nunca se volvió blanca al lavarla.

Es el orfebre quien puede evaluar el oro.

Se puede percibir si las aspiraciones de una persona son genuinas porque crean un cambio en las emanaciones de tal persona.

La gente del mundo tiene un destino prefijado. Pero quien está desarrollado espiritualmente recibe lo que ‘no’ está en su destino.

Los Sufis sostienen que la experiencia y el conocimiento superior le llegan al hombre o mujer en exacta concordancia con su valor, capacidad, y esfuerzo puesto en ello.

P: ,Cuál es el error fundamental del hombre?R: Pensar que está vivo, cuando simplemente se ha dormido en la antesala de la vida.

People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they...

Better to quarrel with a friend than to support enemies.

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

If you are uninterested in what I say, there’s an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some...

Enlightenment must come little by little-otherwise it would overwhelm.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaEmotionalist:A man or woman who thinks he has experienced the divine.

There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.

Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong.

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner.

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia