Sufi Wisdom Quotes
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A Sufi has a right to be served, but he has no right to demand. Maruf Karkhi of Khorasan
— Idries Shah
Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.
— Idries Shah
Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition
— Idries Shah
The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness.
— Wasif Ali Wasif
It is necessary to note," says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi).
— Idries Shah
Sufism is known by means of itself.
— Idries Shah
The world is ancient, but it has not lost its newness.
— Wasif Ali Wasif
The Choice of a purpose is more important than success.
— Wasif Ali Wasif
Disappointment cannot exist without expectation. The expected apricot is never as sweet when it reaches the mouth.
— Idries Shah
When the eye becomes the heart, the heart becomes the eye.
— Wasif Ali Wasif
A man is happy who is happy with his Naseeb(allotted portion).
— Wasif Ali Wasif
Have the nature of a dervish: then wear a stylish cap.
— Idries Shah
The ocean sleeps. The ocean wakes. And the waking of the ocean is the waking of the soul. At midnight wakefulness springs from within the ocean.
— Wasif Ali Wasif
Love was supposed to be the easiest path to divinity
— Soroosh Shahrivar
One who has no beloved in the country can never love the country.
— Wasif Ali Wasif
The Sufis say, "This is not a religion; it is religion
— Idries Shah
The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition.
— Idries Shah
In the bosom of success lie not delights but deprivations
— Wasif Ali Wasif
Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.
— Idries Shah
Do we find ourself or does our self get demolished?
— Donna Goddard
![Sufi Wisdom Quotes By Idries Shah: He who is fortunately enlightened [the Sufi]Knows that](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/sufi-wisdom-quotes-by-idries-shah-1988170.jpg "Sufi Wisdom Quotes By Idries Shah: He who is fortunately enlightened [the Sufi]Knows that")
He who is fortunately enlightened [the Sufi]Knows that sophistry is from the devil and love from Adam. — Idries Shah
With faith one attains and realises peace and harmony. With doubt one destroys and gains freedom to move ontowards.
— Fazal Inayat-Khan
Life is not only Newton, it is also Milton.
— Wasif Ali Wasif
Trust is needed before lessons can be learnt.
— Idries Shah
If behaviors become equivalent it is possible for knowledge to become equivalent (for any two individuals).
— Wasif Ali Wasif
Sufism is education, in that it has a body of knowledge which it transmits to those who have not got it.
— Idries Shah
In reality, every reality is a veil over reality.
— Wasif Ali Wasif
Much travel is needed before the raw man is ripened.
— Idries Shah
A yellow dog is brother to the jackal.
— Idries Shah
Those who say 'I am ready to learn', or 'I am not ready to learn' are as often mistaken as they are correct in their surmise.
— Idries Shah
We wish to become one thing or another, rather we wish to become everything and in this pursuit of becoming everything we only end up becoming idiots.
— Wasif Ali Wasif
He had found riches beyond worldly imagination. He had found the never ending well of love.
— Soroosh Shahrivar
It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true.
— Idries Shah
The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when.
— Idries Shah
When the child is ill, the mother will know how to pray.
— Wasif Ali Wasif
Life abides between life as if it were an island amidst its own ocean
— Wasif Ali Wasif
Investigation after declaration of submission leads astray.
— Wasif Ali Wasif
Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path.
— Idries Shah
RemedyYour medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.
Hazrat Ali — Idries Shah
Be kind to the hawk and harm the sparrow.
— Idries Shah
A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years' sincere, obedient dedication.
— Idries Shah
Sleep is a mirror of life in which can be seen the reflection of death.
— Wasif Ali Wasif
In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom we do slavery.
— Wasif Ali Wasif
In love, there is no distinction between success and failure. If love remains then even separation is union otherwise even union is separation.
— Wasif Ali Wasif
Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything." Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi.
— Idries Shah
Do not destroy anybody's peace. You will find peace.
— Wasif Ali Wasif
They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.
— Idries Shah
This life is but a dream. A state of sleep but how unfortunate that man's eyes open only when they are about to be closed (forever).
— Wasif Ali Wasif
Death is the protector of life and life is the process of death.
— Wasif Ali Wasif
