Quotes About Idries Shah

Saying of the ProphetHumilityHumility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety.

Saying of the ProphetMonkishnessNo monkery in Islam.

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

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaFlattery:One of the most promising of businesses: always brisk.

Rust through washing never became white.

Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.

Saying of the Prophet Truth Speaking the truth to the unjust is the best of holy wars.

Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.

Saying of the Prophet Humility Humility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Drugs: Source of the mystical experience of the ignorant.

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

Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism.

Spirituality is the essence of religion. And there is, again, an essence of spirituality; Sufism is the essence of essences.