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.

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.

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.

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.

It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold.

The Book of Wisdom. Simab said: ‘I shall sell the Book of Wisdom for a hundred gold pieces, and some people will say that it is cheap.’ Yunus Marmar said to him: ‘And I shall...

They will become Godly when they will have God in their hearts.

The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.

Saying of the ProphetUnderstandingSpeak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding.

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.

One lie will keep out forty truths.

But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.

Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPoverty: The result of marriage.

TeachingOne hour’s teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because… they appeal to your greed.

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

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

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

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

Everyone does not know the secrets of TruthThe States of Truth are not evidential.

As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, ‘one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom.

Mystics are no humans but a species different; they are always young and never do they die.

Hak cih na tolıdur kimseler Hakk’ı bilmez / Anı sen senden iste o senden ayru olmaz.

There are two aspects of individual harmony: the harmony between body and soul, and the harmony between individuals. All the tragedy in the world, in the individual and in the multitude, comes from lack of...

Sufism is, in fact, not a mystical system, not a religion, but a body of knowledge.

You fear tomorrow: yet yesterday is just as dangerous.

The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows.

Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy.