Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.

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?’...

Saying of the ProphetTasksWhoever makes all his tasks one task, God will help him in his other concerns.

From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.

None should say: ‘I can trust,’ or ‘I cannot trust’ until he is master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

It is no accident that Sufis find that they can connect most constructively with people who are well integrated into the world, as well as having higher aims, and that those who adopt a sensible...

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

Dicho del ProfetaEnvidiaLa envidia devora las buenas obras, como el fuego devora el combustible.

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.

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.

Conozco la palabra oro, de manera que soy rico

You can perceive a person’s aspiration if it is genuine, because this creates a change in the emanations from such a person.

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.

Patience is bitter, but bears a sweet fruit.

Saying of the ProphetEnvyEnvy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaSupporter: Someone who will say anything.

When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.

It has truly been said that ‘Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.

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

Dicho del ProfetaDía y nocheLa noche es larga, no la acortes con el sueño. El día es hermoso, no lo oscurezcas mediante malas obras.

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 Sufismo, dicen, es aquello que le permite a uno entender la religión, cualquiera sea su actual forma exterior.

Si eres codicioso, eres un prisionero. Si eres avaro, nunca serás llenado.

Cuando la gente cree que la forma es más importante que la verdad, no encontrarán la verdad, pero se quedarán con la forma.

Se ha dicho que la “Humildad no es tanto una virtud como una necesidad a la hora de aprender”.

Recordando y OlvidandoNo te has olvidado de recordar;Te has acordado de olvidar.Pero la gente puede olvidarse de olvidar. Eso es tan importante como acordarse de recordar y, en general, más práctico.

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

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...

The sight of God in woman is the most perfect of all.” Ibn Arabi.

Saying of the ProphetMonkishnessNo monkery in Islam.

Saying of the ProphetDesireDesire not the world, and God will love you. Desire not what others have, and they will love you.

Show a man too many camels’ bones, or show them to him too often, and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one. (Mirza Ahsan of Tabriz)

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

Dicho del ProfetaNo es de los míos quien miente, rompe una promesa o defrauda la confianza depositada en él.

What you have to learn is how to find the unworldly in everything.

Ningún color viene después del negro.

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

Los grandes hombres son grandes hasta que lo saben. Los santos son santos hasta que lo saben.

Si tu deseo de lo “bueno” está basado en la avidez, no es bueno, es avidez.