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

Form is useful, but it is secondary.

Sufis hold that the superior experience and knowledge comes to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth,capacity,and earning of it.

No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue.

Counsels of BahaudinYou want to be filled. But something which is full has first to be emptied. Empty yourself so that you will fill properly, by observing these counsels, which you can do as duties...

My life is on loan, like money borrowed from a bank. God is the lender, and He retains the right to call in the loan any time. Though I am responsible for taking care of...

No soul in the world is without a particular mission to perform and accomplish, and the misery of every soul is in not having come to understanding of the purpose for which he is born....

The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not...

Saying of the ProphetThe BequestI have nothing to leave you except my family.

When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what ‘belief’ is really for.

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

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 human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.

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

The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.

Sufism is, in operation, pragmatic.

Contrary to Expectation. A wise man, the wonder of his age, taught his disciples from a seemingly inexhaustible store of wisdom. He attributed all his knowledge to a thick tome which was kept in a...

you are a volume in the divine booka mirror to the power that created the universewhatever you want, ask it of yourselfwhatever you’re looking for can only be foundinside of you

From my insufficiency to my perfection, and from my deviation to my equilibriumFrom my sublimity to my beauty, and from my splendor to my majestyFrom my scattering to my gathering, and from my rejection to...

Saying of the ProphetSome behaviourI am like a man who has lighted a fire, and all the creeping things have rushed to burn themselves in it.

Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.

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

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

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

The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service

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

Whoever gives knowledge to a fool loses itAnd who keeps it from the deserving does wrong.

All Fakirs are frauds”.

I have made You the companion of my heart.But my body is available to those who desire its company,And my body is friendly toward its guest,But the Beloved of my heart is the guest of...

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaDrugs: Source of the mystical experience of the ignorant.

Saying of the ProphetHumilityHumility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety.

A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years’ sincere, obedient dedication.

Question 3: Why should a person study Sufism?Answer: Because he was created to study it; it is his next step.

Saadi’s dictum, in the Bostan: ‘The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe

The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so.

All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language.

Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher.

The mine is always bigger than the gem.

not” in their destiny.

The intelligence of the heart bypasses the intellect in the head which works on assumptions and requires a lot of thinking and confusion and makes a person tired and weak. But, the heart intelligence is...

Sufilere sohbet gerek Ahilere ahret gerek Mecnunlara Leyla gerek Bana seni gerek seni

I have loved in life and I have been loved. I have drunk the bowl of poison from the hands of love as nectar, and have been raised above life’s joy and sorrow. My heart,...

A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man’s own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without the bird.

humanity”, they cannot arrive at the Truth.

When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.

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

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

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.

It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold.