Quotes About Sufi

El camino Sufi es a través del conocimiento y la práctica, no a través del intelecto y el habla. Como dice el príncipe Dara Shikoh en el poema persa: ¿Deseas ser incluido con los Señores de la Visión? Pasa (entonces) del discurso a la experiencia. Al decir "Unidad", no te transformas en un monoteísta; La boca no se vuelve dulce por la palabra "Azúcar".

All life is struggle, says the Sufi, but the struggle must be a coherent one. The average man is struggling against too many things all at once. If a confused and incomplete person makes money, or becomes a professional success, he still remains a confused and incomplete person.

Sufi Teachers are not, as you might hope, people who make you feel peace and harmony.

Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and "orders" are in fact only of archaeological interest.

One of the basic Sufi needs is to enable people to see themselves as they really are.

Sufi service has to be the right kind of service; neither servitude nor hypocrisy.

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

He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi. Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.

The Hole and the Thread A CERTAIN great Sufi was asked about the role and status of some of his predecessors. He said: 'To erect a small building you may first have to excavate a large hole. 'To make a large carpet you may have to start with a single thread. 'When you can see the building or the carpet, your question is answered. 'But when your question is about the hole in the ground and the thread in the hand, you can only be answered in this parable.' * * *

The Sufi is one who does what others do – when it is necessary. He is also one who does what others cannot do – when it is indicated.

The totality of life cannot be understood, so runs Sufi teaching, if it is studied only through the methods which we use in everyday living.

Eruditos de Oriente y Occidente consagraron heroicamente sus existencias profesionales a poner a disposición del público el material literario y filosófico sufi, utilizando para ello sus propias disciplinas. En muchos casos hicieron referencia a la insistencia de los propios sufis en que el camino de los sufis no puede ser comprendido valiéndose del intelecto o mediante el común aprendizaje a través de libros.

El principal problema es que la mayoría de los comentaristas están acostumbrados a considerar a las escuelas espirituales como "sistemas", más o menos similares, y que dependen del dogma y el ritual: en especial de la repetición y la aplicación de presiones continuas y uniformes sobre sus seguidores. El camino sufi, excepto en formas degeneradas que no deben clasificarse como súficas, difiere totalmente de eso.

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

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

Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything." Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi.

A Sufi has a right to be served, but he has no right to demand. Maruf Karkhi of Khorasan

Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.

Ser un Sufi es desligarse de ideas fijas y preconcebidas, y no intentar eludir el propio destino. Abu-Said, hijo de Abi-Khair

Definition of a Sufi To learn, people must give up a great deal, and this includes ritual as something from which they imagine they might learn. It is to emphasise this that Abu-Yaqub al-Susi, quoted in Kalabadhi's Taaruf, states that the Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

He who is fortunately enlightened [the Sufi] Knows that sophistry is from the devil and love from Adam.

Aquel que es afortunadamente iluminado (el Sufi) Sabe que la sofistería procede del diablo, y el amor de Adán.

Según la enseñanza Sufi, no es posible entender la vida en su totalidad si se la analiza según los métodos utilizados en nuestra cotidianidad.

He paused and then showed me how he had been reading my mind all along. 'You reflected that you had my reputation in the hollow of your hand. But why did you exalt at something everyone else also has? Do you not know that every ignoramus on earth can safely defame every single Sufi in the world. He will be believed by every other fearful suspicious, greedy person.