Continuously, in commemoration of the FriendWe drank wine, even before the creation of the vine.

ServiceI will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.Rabia el-Adawia.

To drown in treacle is just as unpleasant as to drown in mud.People today are in danger of drowning in information; but because they have been taught information is useful, they are more willing to...

Politics is the application of Sufism to earthlife…To refuse to act politically is to starve your children, destroy civilization.

I’m born with wild horses in my head..With an imagination to conquer this world..I will not settle for comforts of a golden cage.

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.

A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands.

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

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

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

Sandals. The Sufi teacher Ghulam-Shah was asked what pattern he used in formulating his courses for disciples. He said: ‘Barefoot until you can get sandals, sandals until you can manage boots.

Now that I have found thee, I know that in the first step I took, I moved away from thee.

find” him, for then his inner call is audible to me, even if it is silent to him.’ ‘Seek and you will be found.

God said to him [Eblis], ‘You have become proud.’ He replied, ‘If I had been with you but a moment my pride would have been justified; I have been with you for centuries.

No colour comes after black.

Saying of the ProphetAngerYou ask for a piece of advice. I tell you: ‘Do not get angry.’ He is strong who can withhold anger.

That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh).

One of the great Sufis said: ‘A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.

Why did I do such-and-such a thing?’ is all very well. But what about ‘How otherwise could I have done it?

Sufism is known by means of itself.

Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.

You may be able to get the bone down your throat But if it reaches your stomach it will tear your navel.(Gulistan)

That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information….but knowledge does not come in that manner.

It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.

I am a lover, and I deal in love. Sow flowers,So your surroundings become a garden.Don’t sow thorns; for they will prick your feet.We are all one body,Whoever tortures another, wounds himself.

It was inevitable, as soon as legends of miracles became attached to the names of the great mystics, that the credulous masses should applaud imposture more than true devotion; the cult of the saints, against...

THE BIRD AND THE WATERA bird which has not heard of fresh waterDips his beak in salt-water year after year.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)

Saying of the ProphetLoveDo you think you love your Creator? Love your fellow-creature first.

If you have no troubles – buy a goat.

When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

Saying of the ProphetSleepSleep is the brother of death.

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

He is the completed Man who, from his completeness, performs, with his Mastership, the work of a slave.

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

The feeling cannot be described in words, it’s mystical; I am changing. Perhaps the soul needed silence so that it can shout to hear the echo from the walls of my heart. It did heard...

My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, allow the...

The Revelation has vindicated the existence of God; and the light of the of the Luminous Form of Muhammad is enough and the most reliable to discover the Truth. The knowledge of the existence of...

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPenitent: Someone who has been made incapable of enjoying himself.

Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to ‘things of the day’ – the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important – and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he...

Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form.

If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.

One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

The Apparent is the Bridge to the Real

Better to quarrel with a friend than to support enemies.

If you have two shirts, sell one and with the money buy a flower’.

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

Truth is one, unique, single; it isindivisibly One.And its Oneness, and the knowledge ofthat oneness belongs to him; isplaced in him.Impossible, impossible; it is aloofness,estrangement, separation; he is known onlyby them.Knowledge of One is abstract;...

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaAdherent:Someone who will believe anything except what he should.