1,132 Quotes About Sufis

As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom.

They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse.

WisdomSufian said: 'The wisdom which is invisible but which sustains is a hundred times better than the appearance of wisdom, for that has itself to be sustained.

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

Sufism, the "secret tradition," is not available on the basis of assumptions which belong to another world, the world of intellect.

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.

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.

Nessuno dovrebbe dire: “Posso fidarmi” o “Non posso fidarmi”, finché è padrone dell’opzione di fidarsi o non fidarsi.

Un perro amarillo es hermano del chacal.