927 Quotes About Sufism

To be fully human is to fulfill our spiritual destiny.

How can we speak about sustainability without speaking about the Sustainer?

Behind all created beauty the mystic sees a witness to the source of eternal beauty – the ruby is the heart of the stone, which has been transformed into a priceless jewel through patience and shedding its blood...

Every seeker after truth must remember one thing: that the first step in the path of truth is to become true to oneself.

Spirituality is the essence of religion. And there is, again, an essence of spirituality; Sufism is the essence of essences.

Hamzah’s sha’ir derived its original or primary influence not from the ruba’i, but from the four-line shi’r of Ibnu’l-Arabi and ‘Iraqi which forms the bulk of quotations of Sufi poetry in his works.

It seems to me that apart from the aptness of the Malay language in the construction of four-lined verses with a AAAA pattern of rhyme, the influence of Ibnu’l-‘Arabi’s and ‘Iraqi’s four-line shi’r and Jami’s ruba’i, the concept of the bayt and the shi’r in Arabic and Persian prosody, the creative genius of the poet, Hamzah’s choice of the four-line shi’r composed of a single bayt could well have been influenced also by the symbolism in the Sufi doctrines.

The harshness of a teacher is better than the reputed softness of the parent.

Liberalized trade is still a strong force for increasing welfare in all participating countries. And the growing interconnectedness and interdependence of national economies expresses the spiritual reality of the fundamental unity of all mankind.