927 Quotes About Sufism

Whoever has not first dug a well, should not steal a minaret.

If you have two shirts, sell one and with the money buy a flower’.

One lie will keep out forty truths.

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

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.

Someone says that I haven’t taught him anything that he can remember. He can’t understand yet that that’s precisely what I am aiming at…

Let me also again emphasize that it is only within Islam that Sufism can be practiced. The two have never been separated from each other in their reality and in fact are inwardly one, and certainly they have never been separated for me throughout my life.

TeachingOne hour's teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.

Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.