Quotes About Spirituality

Saying of the Prophet Monkishness No monkery in Islam.

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.

Have the nature of a dervish: then wear a stylish cap.

Dicho del Profeta Deseo No desees el mundo y Dios te amará. No desees lo que otros posees, y ellos te amarán.

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

SENTENCES OF THE KHAJAGAN RUDBARI : Heart to heart is an essential means of passing on the secrets of the Path.

But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'.

Sufism is education, in that it has a body of knowledge which it transmits to those who have not got it.

Una barba mejor que la tuya. "Todos los verdaderos devotos llevan barba," dijo el Imán a su audiencia. "Muéstrenme una barba espesa y brillante, y yo les mostraré a un verdadero creyente!" "Mi cabra tiene una barba mucho más tupida y larga que la tuya," contestó Nasrudín. "¿Eso significa que es mejor musulmán que tú?".

The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is.

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

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.

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

And Rumi tells us, 'Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue'.

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

The practice of the Sufis is too sublime to have a formal beginning

Sufism is experiential

Sufism is always systematised only for limited or transitory periods: because Sufism is primarly instrumental, not for enjoyment or display.

Saying of the Prophet Objects It is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf.

El Sufismo es, en funcionamiento, pragmático.

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

Las personas de este mundo tienen un destino fijado. Pero quien está desarrollado espiritualmente recibe lo que 'no' está en su destino.

The Sufis say, "This is not a religion; it is religion

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