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Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: 'Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue'. — Idries Shah

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

The practice of the Sufis is too sublime to have a formal beginning, — Idries Shah

Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition — Idries Shah

To send a kiss by messenger. — Idries Shah

Pick up a bee from kindness, and learn the limitations of kindness. — Idries Shah

Man (as he imagines himself to be), in general, is a possibility, not a fact. — Idries Shah

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Truthful man:
He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy. — Idries Shah

The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again. — Idries Shah

Inner Knowledge
You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being. — Idries Shah

Man thinks many things. He thinks he is One. He is usually several. Until he becomes One, he cannot have a fair idea of what he is at all. — Idries Shah

It is necessary to note," says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi). — Idries Shah

Even if false gold makes a man happy:
At the mint it will be identified. — Idries Shah

among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn — Idries Shah

Saadi: Be a true renouncer, (zahid) and [you can even] ware satin. — Idries Shah

When sense has left a head, it should be called a tail. — Idries Shah

Voice in the night
A voice whispered to me last night: 'There is no such thing as a voice whispering in the night! — Idries Shah

There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression. — Idries Shah

Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy. — Said Nursi

The clothes may vary, but the person is the same. — 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

Our heads are filled with 'knowledge', a knowledge that in some areas pre-empts our seeing anything at all. — Idries Shah

Religion, for instance, cannot be accepted or rejected out of hand, until the student knows exactly what religion means. — Idries Shah

Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought. — Idries Shah

If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write. — Idries Shah

Is your division of Understanding into Greater and Lesser common to all Sufis? Nothing which is put into words is common to all Sufis. — Idries Shah

Sufis (the name for the realised individual, not the learner or follower) are reunited with objective Reality and Unity. — Idries Shah

Sufism is that which succeeds in bringing to man the High Knowledge. — Idries Shah

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

Whatever goes into a salt-mine becomes salt. — Idries Shah

A Sufi is one who is not bound by anything nor does he bind anything — Idries Shah

Well-meant techniques such as arbitrary self-mortification, are useless. — Idries Shah

Be kind to the hawk and harm the sparrow. — Idries Shah

What goes into a salt-mine becomes salt. — Idries Shah

Service
I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.

Rabia el-Adawia. — Idries Shah

SENTENCES OF THE KHAJAGAN
GURGANI:
The teacher and the taught together produce the teaching. — Idries Shah

Sufis hold that the superior experience and knowledge comes to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth,capacity,and earning of it. — Idries Shah

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'. — Idries Shah

They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom. — Idries Shah

One should not pray if that prayer is vanity. — Idries Shah

Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything." Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi. — Idries Shah

It is as true as anything else which can be spoken to say that all knowledge is really available everywhere. — Idries Shah

The mine is always bigger than the gem. — Idries Shah

Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism. — Idries Shah

And Rumi tells us, 'Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue'. — Idries Shah

The liar has a bad memory. — Idries Shah

A man's capacity is the same as his breadth of vision. — Idries Shah

Angels are the powers hidden in the faculties and organs of man — Idries Shah

Saying of the Mulla Nasrudin. If I survive this life without dying, I'll be surprised. — Idries Shah

If the father cannot, the son will finish the task. — Idries Shah

You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to do, and you do know what that means. — Idries Shah

As swords were designed to kill
They did well to make them tongue-shaped.

(Anwar-i-Suhaili) — Idries Shah

A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals. — Idries Shah

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Flattery:
One of the most promising of businesses: always brisk. — Idries Shah

A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years' sincere, obedient dedication. — Idries Shah

In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him. — Idries Shah

Because sugar is not arsenic, many graves are full. — Idries Shah

The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something? — Idries Shah

Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher. — Idries Shah

Unbelief and belief are both marching on His road, while both are saying, 'He is one and He has no associates'. — Idries Shah

You will never reach Mecca, I fear: for you are on the road to Turkestan. — Idries Shah

What you are pleased to call Sufism is merely the record of past method. — Idries Shah

Brave is the thief who carries a lamp in his hand. — Idries Shah

Be a dog, but don't be a younger brother.

Proverb. — Idries Shah

You must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them. — Idries Shah

Each flies with its own kind: pigeon with pigeon, hawk with hawk. — Idries Shah

The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed. — Idries Shah

No colour comes after black. — Idries Shah

Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves. — Idries Shah

Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew. — Idries Shah

Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path. — Idries Shah

Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years' time. — Idries Shah

To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves. — Idries Shah

One lie will keep out forty truths. — Idries Shah

The function of a nutrient is to become transmuted, not to leave unaltered traces. — Idries Shah

The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss. — Idries Shah

Remedy
Your 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

The secret protects itself. It is found only in the spirit and practice of the Work. — Idries Shah

A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work — Idries Shah

Action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher. — Idries Shah

Knowledge. How curious that a man who closes his hand upon air so often thinks that he has a ruby within his grasp. — Idries Shah

People carry on whole conversations in proverbs. But they are not LIVING the proverbs. — Idries Shah

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Poverty: The result of marriage. — Idries Shah

A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information. — Idries Shah

A donkey eats a melon, it remains a donkey — Idries Shah

Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained — Idries Shah

The teaching must, of course, work with the best part of the individual, must be directed to his or her real capacity. — Idries Shah

No effort makes a black crow into a white hawk. — Idries Shah

The spirit is the mirror; the body is the rust.
(Divan-i-Shamsi Tabriz) — Idries Shah

From the beginning, from the age of Adam to the time of kingship: from the powerful, pardon: from the poor, sins. — Idries Shah

An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair) — 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

A MOTTO OF THE HUMAN RACE
Tell me what to do; but it must be what I want you to tell me. — Idries Shah

The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man ... therefore increase your necessity. — Idries Shah

The Sufis have said: 'The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness. — Idries Shah

Better to quarrel with a friend than to support enemies. — Idries Shah

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

SENTENCES OF THE KHAJAGAN
RUDBARI : Heart to heart is an essential means of passing on the secrets of the Path. — Idries Shah