You make me a sinner if you stop me giving you hospitality.

From the beginning, from the age of Adam to the time of kingship: from the powerful, pardon: from the poor, sins.

Better to quarrel with a friend than to support enemies.

Never promise, even by implication, without fulfilling your promise.The only acceptable alternative to completing an undertaking is to over-fulfil it.To betray any promise, explicit or otherwise, will harm you more than it can harm anyone else.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.

Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

Sufism is experiential. Capacities, even those for learning beyond a certain point, are provoked by Sufis, by one's own efforts and what results from them, and by an element of what is referred to by Sufis as the Divine.