sufis

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

Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.

When you are still fragmentated, lacking certainty _ what difference does it make what your decisions are?

Inscribed on it was a verse from the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, the eleventh-century Persian mystic. Reading the words aloud I prepared for a most amazing journey:The sages who have compassed sea and land,Their secret to search out and understand,My mind misgives me if they ever solveThe scheme on which the universe is planned.

The important place held by Jesus among the world's six hundred million Moslems... and the agreement of both religions about the necessity for surrender to God as the means of salvation, thus makes it comparatively easy for a Moslem to address himself to Christians: the sympathy and the history are already there.

From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths _ outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.

And there are many people, both Moslem and Christian, who have a good grasp of each others0 conceptions of surrender to God an other principles. But the widespread existence of bias, misinformation and lack of knowledge (_) militate against the effectiveness of dialogue, (_) by the most subtle and one of the most effective of instruments, the subconscious, almost the subliminal, introduction of hostility.

Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.

Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning of it

ScrapsThe scraps from the meal of the Emir are larger than the gifts of halwa from the merchant. Timur Fazil

As swords were designed to killThey did well to make them tongue-shaped.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)

Our objective is to achieve, by the understanding of the Origin, the Knowledge which comes through experience.

Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)

He had found riches beyond worldly imagination. He had found the never ending well of love.

A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work. (Hafiz)

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

A man must be a Solomon before his magical ring will work

The question of divine knowledge is so deep that it is really known only to those who have it.