“I have loved in life and I have been loved.
I have drunk the bowl of poison from the hands of love as nectar,
and have been raised above life's joy and sorrow.
My heart, aflame in love, set afire every heart that came in touch with it.
My heart has been rent and joined again;
My heart has been broken and again made whole;
My heart has been wounded and healed again;
A thousand deaths my heart has died, and thanks be to love, it lives yet.
I went through hell and saw there love's raging fire,
and I entered heaven illumined with the light of love.
I wept in love and made all weep with me;
I mourned in love and pierced the hearts of men;
And when my fiery glance fell on the rocks, the rocks
burst forth as volcanoes.
The whole world sank in the flood caused by my one tear;
With my deep sigh the earth trembled, and when I cried
aloud the name of my beloved,
I shook the throne of God in heaven.
I bowed my head low in humility, and on my knees I begged of love,
"Disclose to me, I pray thee, O love, thy
secret."
She took me gently by my arms and lifted me above the earth, and spoke softly
in my ear,
"My dear one, thou thyself art love, art lover,
and thyself art the beloved whom thou hast adored.”
― Hazrat Inayat Khan, The
Dance of the Soul
“The
happiness of the drop is to die in the river.”
― Al-Ghazali
“It
is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.”
― Idries Shah, The
Sufis
“Listen,
O drop, give yourself up without regret,
and in exchange gain the Ocean.
Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor,
and in the arms of the Sea be secure.
Who indeed should be so fortunate?
An Ocean wooing a drop!
In God's name, in God's name, sell and buy at once!
Give a drop, and take this Sea full of pearls.”
― Rumi
“Worry
is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a
criticism of Divine Mercy.”
― Said Nursi
“There
are two aspects of individual harmony: the harmony between body and soul, and
the harmony between individuals. All the tragedy in the world, in the
individual and in the multitude, comes from lack of harmony. And harmony is the
best given by producing harmony in one's own life. ”
― Hazrat Inayat Khan
“The
first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life,
not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage
this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be
healing.”
― Hazrat Inayat Khan
“The
sufis believe that they can experience something more
complete.”
― Idries Shah, The
Sufis
“Commit
yourself to good conduct (adab) both inwardly and
outwardly; for whenever one transgresses the bounds of conduct outwardly, he is
punished outwardly, and whenver one transgresses the
bounds of conduct inwardly, he is punished inwardly.”
― Aisha the daughter of Abu Uthman Said B. Ismail Al Hiri of Nishapur.
“One
cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.”
― Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action
“He
causes huge bodies like sun to proclaim His Majesty through His Names the
All-Gracious, Great, reciting: ' O Glorious One, O Great One, O Mighty One',
while tiny animate creatures like flies and fish proclaim His Mercy, reciting:
'O Gracious One, O Compassionate One, O Generous One”
― Said Nursi
“The
union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the
development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.”
― Idries Shah
A
sot became extremely drunk - his legs
And head sank listless, weighed by wine's thick dregs.
A sober neighbour put him in a sack
And took him homewards hoisted on his back.
Another drunk went stumbling by the first,
Who woke and stuck his head outside and cursed.
"Hey, you, you lousy dipsomaniac,"
He yelled as he was borne off in the sack,
"If you'd had fewer drinks, just two or three,
You would be walking now as well as me.”
― فرید الدین
عطار
“Standing
in Front of the Mirror of Eternity
Dressed
By True Existence
Looking to Your Own Reality
In the
― Sheikh
Nazim Al-Haqqani
“Anybody
or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn:
Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
“Sufilere sohbet gerek
Ahilere ahret gerek
Mecnunlara Leyla gerek
Bana seni gerek seni”
― Yunus Emre
“Nothing
is what it seems.
Favoured Pashtu proverb of Jan Fishan
Khan.”
― Tahir Shah, Sorcerer's Apprentice
“Hak cihâna tolıdur kimseler Hakk’ı bilmez / Anı sen senden
iste o senden ayru olmaz.”
― Yunus Emre, Poemas
“An
intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly
pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or, 'He learnt the language of pigeons,
and forgot his own.' Or, the favourite of Jan Fishan Khan: 'Nothing is what it seems.”
― Tahir Shah, Sorcerer's Apprentice
“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.”
― Idries Shah, Reflections
“Scholars
of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to
making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and
philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases they have
faithfully recorded the Sufis' own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot
be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.”
― Idries Shah, The
Sufis
“Politics
is the application of Sufism to earthlife...To refuse
to act politically is to starve your children, destroy civilization.”
― Shamcher Bryn Beorse, Letters: Shamcher Beorse and Carol Sill,
1974-1977
“Selfishness
keeps man blind through life.”
― Hazrat Inayat Khan, The
Bowl of Saki: Thoughts for Daily Contemplation from
the Sayings and Teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan
“Islam
and Sufism are one. Teaching that to understand Islam one must be a lover, how
can one understand Islam when the heart is empty of love.”
― Zarina Bibi
Source:
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