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...
—Idries Shah
Eblis said, “No man who thinks ill, will hear the truth despite a hundred signs.When one who fantasises is presented with reason his fantasies increase.When one talks to such a person, their words become the...
—Rumi
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaWisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it.
Day and NightThe night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing.
From the beginning, from the age of Adam to the time of kingship: from the powerful, pardon: from the poor, sins.
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.
All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner.
… the Sufi attitude is: ‘Let the real truth, whatever it may be, be revealed to me’.
But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school.
Eat what you desire, but dress like other people.
Sayings of the ProphetTrust: Trust in God – but tie your camel first.
One lie will keep out forty truths
One day Lal shahbaz was wandering in the desert with his friend Sheikh Bhaa ud-Din Zakariya. It was winter, and evening time, so they began to build a fire to keep warm. They found some...
—William Dalrymple
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