sufis

If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent.

Whatever goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.

Dye your hair, certainly. But what can you do for your face?

Learning without action is like wax without honey.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)

Information about the activities of one body of Sufis may be harmful to the potential of another.

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

Sufism is experiential

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

Everyone does not know the secrets of TruthThe States of Truth are not evidential.

ServiceI will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.Rabia el-Adawia.

Man has less than he suspects of: Time, Friends, Hopes, Qualities.Proverb

MAGHRIBI: Learning is in activity. Learning through words alone is minor activity.

One day the cub will become a wolf, even if it has been reared among the sons of man.

Each flies with its own kind: pigeon with pigeon, hawk with hawk.

The mine is always bigger than the gem.

The aspirant has to be guided by a mentor. The stage at which this guidance can take effect is seldom, if ever, perceptible to the learner.

When there is a true or useful thing, there is sure to be a counterfeit.

Have the nature of a dervish: then wear a stylish cap.