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?”.

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

Cuando una creencia se transforma en algo más que un instrumento, estás perdido. Permanecerás perdido hasta que aprendas para qué es realmente la ‘creencia’.

El sufismo o “tradición secreta” no se encuentra disponible sobre una base de suposiciones que pertenecen a otro mundo, el del intelecto.

,Eso significa que es mejor musulmán que tú?”.

No practice exists in isolation.

Sufism is always systematised only for limited or transitory periods: because Sufism is primarly instrumental, not for enjoyment or display.

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

The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.

THE HEAVENSTo the mallet of the Highest MindThe heavens are the smallest possible ball.(Akhlaq-i-Mohsini)

DistribuzioneE’ Dio che dà, io sono solo un distributore.

If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy – improve yourself!

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

Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others.

If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?

If you are ‘humble’, it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.

Dicho del ProfetaEnseñanzaUna hora de enseñanza es mejor que una noche entera de oración.

Definiciones de Mulla Do-PiazaComunidad: irracionales unidos por la esperanza de lo imposible.

Puede que seas capaz de engullir el hueso a través de la garganta, pero si llega a tu estómago perforará tu ombligo.

Quienquiera que me haya enseñado una letra me ha hecho su esclavo.

El Sufismo es, en funcionamiento, pragmático.

Ellos dicen: “Busca la sabiduría mientras tengas la fuerza, o puedes perder la fuerza sin obtener la sabiduría”.

Las instituciones de estudio se hacen más visibles cuando la cabeza está más vacía de imaginaciones.

Pero el mínimo deber humano es servir a otros: no es un gran logro.

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A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information….The key is the teacher.

Whoever is to be wise despises himself. Only the ignorant trust their own judgement.

Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: ‘Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue’.

Sufism, the “secret tradition,” is not available on the basis of assumptions which belong to another world, the world of intellect.

Saying of the ProphetTHE PEOPLEIt is the people who are God’s family.(Muhammad the Prophet)

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

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.

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.

You can keep going on much less attention than you crave.

Dicho del ProfetaQuienquiera que injurie a su hermano por un pecado, no morirá antes de haberlo cometido él mismo