Sufism Quotes - Page 2

• The practice of Sufism is the intention to move toward truth by means of love and devotion.

  Javad Nurbakhsh

  Moving, Mean, Compassion

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• When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.

  Rumi

  Love, Spiritual, Sleep

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.147, Penguin UK

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• This is love: to fly toward a secret sky

  Rumi

  Valentines Day, Sky, Making Love

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• Sufism and yoga are one and the same thing. They are just words, in wisdom there is no difference. All the teachings are absolutely the same. They are only different paths to the One.

  Irina Tweedie

  Yoga, Teaching, Differences

  Source: www.goldensufi.org

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• People who were also traders were also men of Sufism, as we see around Java, people who were outwardly trading but were also men of very high spiritual character. Otherwise no trader would be able to convert a person from one religion to another. It was because they were men of spiritual character.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Character, Men

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• To those who say "Sufism is apolitical" or "no politics," I respond: "No politics is politics." Look at the very old African Sufi tradition, the Asian Sufi tradition, or the North African Sufi tradition. Then you get it and understand what Sufism is all about wisdom, courage and resistance.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Asian, Looks, Resistance

  "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.

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• Amongst the friends of Allah (Awliya), the Qur'an is considered as a love letter from Allah, which inevitably is read continuously to remind them of their Beloved.

  Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

  God, Reading, Islamic

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• It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.

  Idries Shah

  Men, Important, Messages

  Idries Shah (1999). “The Sufis”, p.57, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Look at Senegal, about 90% of the Muslims in Senegal are Tijani or Qadiri Sufis. Among them, they have very great teachers who have written poems about al-Hallaj, and they have not been killed. In fact, it's Sufism that brought Islam through all of Senegal, right under our noses the last couple of centuries. And you can go down the same line through Indonesia and Malaysia.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Teacher, Couple, Islam

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Love Is, Making Love

  "Masnavi". Poem by Rumi, edition.cnn.com.

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• Why should I be unhappy? Each parcel of my being is in full bloom.

  Rumi

  Unhappy, Should, Life Love And Happiness

  "The Rumi Collection".

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• We view Sufism not as an ideology that molds people to the right way of belief or action, but as an art or science that can exert a beneficial influence on individuals and societies, in accordance with the needs of those individuals and societies ... Sufi study and development gives one capacities one did not have before.

  Idries Shah

  Art, Views, People

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• This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

  Rumi

  Love, Valentines Day, Letting Go

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “This Is Love”

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• The very essence of the Sufi spiritual tradition requires you to purify your heart, to liberate yourself from your ego and to be courageous in facing any corrupt power, injustice and oppression. Unfortunately, colonial powers pushed an agenda by using Sufism against resistance, and some ulama played that game in the past and in the present.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Spiritual, Heart, Past

  "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". The Islamic Monthly Interview, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.

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• There is no religion in the world where there is a possibility of spiritual development outside of the context of that religion. This is only a modern invention. For example, Christian mystics were also Christians. They also went to Church and followed Christian laws. Hindu mystics were practicing Hindus; they didn't kill cows and have steak. They follow the Hindu laws and so on and so forth down the line and Sufism is no exception.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Christian, Spiritual, Law

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.

  Idries Shah

  Believe, Sufi

  Idries Shah (1999). “The Sufis”, p.36, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.

  Rumi

  Love, Spiritual, Pain

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.111, Lulu.com

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• Now is the time to unite the Soul and the world.

  Rumi

  Soul, World, Life Love And Happiness

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• I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.

  Youssou N'Dour

  Thinking, Ideas, Culture

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• From it genesis twelve hundred years ago to today, Islamic philosophy (al-hikmah; al-falsafah) has been one of the major intellectual traditions within the Islamic world, and it has influenced and been influenced by many other intellectual perspectives, including Scholastic theology (kalam) and doctrinal Sufism (al-ma'rifah or al-tasawwuf al-'ilmi) and theoretical gnosis ('irfan-i nazari).

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Philosophy, Islamic, Years

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