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.

The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: ‘the Sufis are not merchants’.

People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives.

Dicho del ProfetaMonacatoNo hay monjes en el Islam.

La visión de Dios en la mujer es la más perfecta de todas.” Ibn el Arabi

Pobre avaro, donde quiera que vaya, él persigue alimentos, y la muerte lo persigue a él. (Saadi)

Quien vaya a ser sabio se menosprecia a sí mismo. Sólo los ignorantes confían en su propio juicio.

Los Sufis no están aquí para satisfacer una demanda. Existen para compartir lo que tienen. Estas dos cosas no son siempre lo mismo.

Hay un dicho que afirma que, según la mentalidad de una persona, incluso un ángel podría parecerle un demonio.

Aprender a aprender: Decir “sí” a la vía sufi es decir “no” a las fugas imaginadas.

El sufismo se transmite por medio del elemento humano, es decir del maestro.

Busca y serás hallado.

With enough information, it is almost impossible “not” to predict people’s action.

Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets.

If you have two shirts, sell one and with the money buy a flower’.

find” him, for then his inner call is audible to me, even if it is silent to him.’ ‘Seek and you will be found.

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPenitent: Someone who has been made incapable of enjoying himself.

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...

…most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

He who knows himself, knows his Lord’ means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.

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.

Saying of the ProphetAccusationsAnyone reviling a brother for a sin will not himself die before committing it.

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

Definiciones de Mulla Do-PiazaPenitente: alguien a quien se ha incapacitado para disfrutar.

Desde el comienzo, desde la edad de Adán hasta la época de las monarquías: del poderoso, perdón; del pobre, pecados.

El pájaro que no tiene conocimiento del agua pura tiene su pico dentro de agua salada todo el año.

Nadie que conozca su capacidad tropieza con perjuicio.

Las formas han cambiado a través de los siglos obedeciendo al mundo externo al cual toda forma pertenece.

Cuando se ejercita la humildad, la gente comienza a advertir que, por así decirlo, no existe en modo alguno.

Cuanto más despierto está un hombre ante las cosas que lo rodean, más dormido está; y su despertar es peor que su sueño.

la respuesta a un tonto es el silencio”:La observación, sin embargo, indica que prácticamente cualquier otra respuesta tendrá el mismo efecto a largo plazo.

They have fixed our nutrition and arranged our life-span. More than this, and ahead of this, efforts will not be productive.

EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMIWhen we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.

Sufism, in one definition, “is” human life.

Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaAdherent:Someone who will believe anything except what he should.

Saying of the ProphetStruggleThe holy warrior is he who struggles with himself.

Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets; many who are in their graves are in reality alive.

The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows.

Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy.

There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.

Sufism is known by means of itself.

Dicho del ProfetaEl juezUn hombre que es nombrado juez ha sido asesinado sin cuchillo.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

Ningún color viene después del negro.

En el domino de la Comprensión Mayor, el taller se desmantela cuando el trabajo ha terminado.

Los ángeles son los poderes ocultos en las facultades y órganos del hombre

,Por qué hice tal y cual cosa?” está muy bien. Pero qué hay con “,De qué otra forma podría haberlo hecho?”.