Sufism Quotes

• I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Beautiful, Love Yourself, Relax

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• I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.

  Rumi

  Sufi, Found, Sufi Love

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• Tear down the mosque, the temple, everything in sight. But don't break a human heart. For that is where God resides.

  Bulleh Shah

  God, Heart, Sight

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• Sufism is not a religion or a philosophy, it is neither deism nor atheism, nor is it a moral, nor a special kind of mysticism, being free from the usual religious sectarianism. If ever it could be called a religion, it would only be as a religion of love, harmony, and beauty.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Religious, Philosophy, Special

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• Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.

  Rumi

  Love, Happiness, Spiritual

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• Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Inspirational, Nature, Animal

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• If anybody asks what Sufism is, what kind of religion is it, the answer is that Sufism is the religion of the heart, the religion in which the thing of primary importance is to seek God in the heart of mankind.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Heart, Answers, Kind

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Unity of Religious Ideals”, p.16, Library of Alexandria

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• The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.

  Idries Shah

  Secret

  Idries Shah (1978). “Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way”, p.64, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands look for something, will find it.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Hands, Looks

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• Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Sufi, Wherever You Are

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• If I repent now will God forgive me?
  No, but if God forgives you, you will repent.

  Rabia Basri

  Forgive Me, Forgiving, Repent

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• My god
  how gentle you are with me
  in spite of my great ignorance
  and how merciful You are with me
  in spite of my ugly deeds

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Forgiveness, God, Religious

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  I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being.

  Rumi

  Smile, Flower, Lips

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• The thing we tell of can never be found be seeking, yet only seekers find it.

  Bayazid Bastami

  Found, Sufi Love, Sufi Wisdom

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• True Sufism is resistance: spiritual, intellectual, social, cultural, political and economic resistance. It cannot be, for sure, supporting dictators.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Spiritual, Political, Intellectual

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.

  Rumi

  Love, Life, Sufi

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.245, Penguin UK

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• I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Beautiful, Loving Life, Giving

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• Without Sufism, Islam would not have spread into two thirds of what we call the Islamic world.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Islamic, Two, World

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• If someone remarks "What an excellent man you are!" and this pleases you more than his saying, "What a bad man you are!" know that you are still a bad man.

  Sufyan al-Thawri

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Islamic

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• You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 26, 2006.

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• If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Positive, Health

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.127, Shambhala Publications

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• The basis of Sufism is consideration of the hearts and feelings of others. If you haven't the will to gladden someone's heart, then at least beware lest you hurt someone's heart, for on our path, no sin exists but this.

  Javad Nurbakhsh

  Hurt, Heart, Feelings

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• Sufism has always had the function of purifying Islamic ethics and that fasting and tazkiya is like lighting a lamp.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Islamic, Fasting, Lamps

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows.

  Rumi

  Dancing, Soul, Shadow

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