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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
Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition
— Idries Shah
To send a kiss by messenger.
— Idries Shah
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaTruthful man:
He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy. — Idries Shah
Inner Knowledge You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being. — Idries Shah
It is necessary to note," says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi).
— Idries Shah
among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn
— Idries Shah
When sense has left a head, it should be called a tail.
— Idries Shah
Voice in the nightA 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
Sufis (the name for the realised individual, not the learner or follower) are reunited with objective Reality and Unity.
— 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
Be kind to the hawk and harm the sparrow.
— Idries Shah
What goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.
— Idries Shah
ServiceI will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.
Rabia el-Adawia. — Idries Shah
SENTENCES OF THE KHAJAGANGURGANI:
The teacher and the taught together produce the teaching. — 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
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
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 killThey did well to make them tongue-shaped.
(Anwar-i-Suhaili) — Idries Shah
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaFlattery:
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
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
Unbelief and belief are both marching on His road, while both are saying, 'He is one and He has no associates'.
— 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
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
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
One lie will keep out forty truths.
— Idries Shah
The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss.
— 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
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
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
From the beginning, from the age of Adam to the time of kingship: from the powerful, pardon: from the poor, sins.
— 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 RACETell 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
