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

Sufism is experience, and hence not to be defined – imprisoned – in perennial, static categories.

Sufism is, in operation, pragmatic.

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...

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.

The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire.

Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.

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...

Dicho del ProfetaMuerteMuere antes de tu muerte.

Angels are the powers hidden in the faculties and organs of man

La Paciencia es una prenda que jamás se ha desgastado.

Si tienes dos camisas, vende una y con el dinero compra una flor”.

No cuentes tus secretos a todo el mundo en esta sede central, Tierra. La hemos examinado bien. No había nadie a quien confiar secretos.

La independencia prematura es la hija de la vanidad

La mayor barrera para la comprensión es el pensamiento anhelante y seguir lo que a uno le gusta.

Tres cosas no pueden recuperarse:La flecha una vez que ha partido del arcoLa palabra dicha precipitadamenteLa oportunidad perdida. Ali, el León del Islam.

Busca y serás hallado.

If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth…

Miracles, to the Sufi, are not evidential, they are instrumental.

Sayings of the ProphetTrust: Trust in God – but tie your camel first.

Nothing is what it seems. Favoured Pashtu proverb of Jan Fishan Khan.