1,132 Quotes About Sufis

Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?

The sight of God in woman is the most perfect of all." Ibn Arabi.

How many friends would you have if you went from one to another asking them to conceal a dead body?

Why do people always wonder whether books are any good, without wondering whether they are themselves in a state to profit from them?

To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.

Remember the proverb: 'A sign is enough for the alert, but a thousand counsels are not enough for the negligent.

The Sufis regard systems which treat everyone alike as mechanical and degenerate.

Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaAdherent:Someone who will believe anything except what he should.