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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.
Sufism, the "secret tradition," is not available on the basis of assumptions which belong to another world, the world of intellect.
Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.
The practice of Sufism is the intention to move toward truth by means of love and devotion.
Is your division of Understanding into Greater and Lesser common to all Sufis? Nothing which is put into words is common to all Sufis.
The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.
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.
Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher.
He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.
Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.
Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience and you will know'.
But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'.
But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school.
It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.
The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
From the Muslims I learned from the extraordinary pluralism of the Koran, the fact that the Koran endorses every single one of the major world faiths, but I was particularly enthralled by the Sufi tradition, the mystical tradition of Islam, which is so open to other religious faiths.
It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.
Sufi Teachers are not, as you might hope, people who make you feel peace and harmony.
As soon as thought is restricted, it ceases to be Sufism.
In comfort and abundance the Friend raised me. With vein and skin He tailored this ragged body. It's just a robe worn by a Sufi, the heart. The whole universe is a khaneqah1 and He is my Shaikh.
The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds
Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals.
I don't know what to make of the Muslim mystics, especially those who have come to be known as the Sufis. What do they experience in their mystic experiences? Could they have encountered the same God we do in our Christian mysticism?
People talk of the Sufi way. Wrong. If there is a way, it's not Sufism.
Most mystics do not want to read religious wisdom; they want to be it. A postcard of a beautiful lake is not a beautiful lake, and Sufis may be defined as those who dance in the lake.
While most streams of Buddhism take a contemplative stance on passion, pleasure, and pain, Sufism encourages us to be open to our passions - to dive into the sea, to become at one with the beauty and power of the waves.
To say "yes" to the Sufi way is to say "no" to imagined escapes.
The new Sufi tariqahs founded at this time stressed the unlimited potential of human life. Sufis could experience on the
spiritual plane what the Mongols had so nearly achieved in terrestrial politics
That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh).
He who is fortunately enlightened [the Sufi]
Knows that sophistry is from the devil and love from Adam.
What you are pleased to call Sufism is merely the record of past method.
There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.
Question 3: Why should a person study Sufism?
Answer: Because he was created to study it; it is his next step.
The totality of life cannot be understood, so runs Sufi teaching, if it is studied only through the methods which we use in everyday living.
Information about the activities of one body of Sufis may be harmful to the potential of another.
A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years' sincere, obedient dedication.
Delhi's most famous Sufi saint, Nizamuddin Auliya, who gave spiritual guidance to the incredible Amir Khusro - musician, scholar, poet and the father of qawwali.
Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl
Miracles, to the Sufi, are not evidential, they are instrumental.
The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.
Sufism is always systematised only for limited or transitory periods: because Sufism is primarly instrumental, not for enjoyment or display.
... the work of the (Muslim Sufi) dervish community
was to open the heart,
explore the mystery of union,
to fiercely search for and try to say the truth,
and to celebrate the glory and difficulty
in being in human incarnation.
Sufism, in one definition, "is" human life.
The thing the Buddhists and the Sufis have in common is a belief that religious certainties are destructive.
Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God's essence. As one Sufi master has argued, why spend time reading a love letter (by which he means the Quran) in the presence of the Beloved who wrote it?
The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we ask ourselves, 'Are these words true?' If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate, we ask, 'Are the necessary?' At the last gate, we ask, 'Are they kind?'
When the mind is full of established biases, it will not be able to graft Sufism on top of them.
The pathways into Sufic thinking are, it is traditionally said, almost as varied as the number of Sufis in existence.
Politics is the application of Sufism to earthlife ... To refuse to act politically is to starve your children, destroy civilization.
A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information.
When I was a boy in Desuq, Egypt, a city on the Rosetta branch of the Nile, about 50 miles east of Alexandria, my family lived steps away from the local landmark, a mosque named for a 13th-century Sufi sheik.
Islam and Sufism are one. Teaching that to understand Islam one must be a lover, how can one understand Islam when the heart is empty of love.
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.
The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when.
The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition.
Irving Karchmar, a Sufi convert and friend, and the author of the novel Master of the Jinn, said it best: at some point, the devoted pass from belief into certainty.
These lecture provide material for the consideration of common factors, in theory and in development, from the viewpoint of the idea of surrender to the Divine Will, reviewing some aspects of the interplay between Christians and Moslems, and introducing material from and about Sufis.
Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.
Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and "orders" are in fact only of archaeological interest.
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.
A modern story of Mullah Nasrudin, the Sufi teacher and holy fool, tells of him entering a bank and trying to cash a check. The teller asks him to please identify himself. Nasrudin reaches in his pocket and pulls out a small mirror. Looking into it, he says, "Yep, that's me all right." Meditation
Ravi Zacharias brings with him considerable intellectual strength and theological depth. His background brings him and understanding of cultures and personal acquaintance with other religions.
Reh Gyi Rasm-e-Azan, Rooh-e-Bilali Na Rahi
Falsafa Reh Gya, Talqeen-e-Ghazali Na Rahi
Azan yet sounds, but never now Like Bilal's, soulfully;
Philosophy, conviction-less, Now mourns its Ghazzali
Spirituality will only be recognized
by spiritual people.
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
Babaji
The sacred preacher woman; Lailah Gifty Akita.
Sandals. The Sufi teacher Ghulam-Shah was asked what pattern he used in formulating his courses for disciples. He said: 'Barefoot until you can get sandals, sandals until you can manage boots.
One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.
Yafi'i, Raud al rayahin
A ghra. A amhain. My love. My only.
Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.
You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.
Islam is in a formative period struggling to consolidate the vast reach won by both inspiration and force at its founding. Two centuries along, the faith of Muhammad hangs like an intricate veil: a religion still searching for institutional wholeness, a set of lessons to live by.
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
Endowed with a clear intellect, warm in affection, and confiding in friendship, he was from the boyhood devoted heart and soul to the Prophet. Simple, quiet, and unambitious, when in after days he obtained the rule of half of the Moslem world, it was rather thrust upon him than sought
Muslims all over the world are looking with high expectations toward the ummah community in the United States and Canada. Its dynamism, fresh approach, enlightened scholarship and sheer growth is their hope for an Islamic renaissance worldwide.
Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more complete and more radical form. It is the perfect form of self-affirmation.
An Islamic ideology capable of giving Muslims freedom, social justice and of interacting with other religions, cultures and ideologies
Being Muslim has become synonymous with pointed questions, with tension and mistrust, even with conflict. It has become a global phenomenon with profound consequences for inter-communal relations, political rhetoric and policies at the local, regional, national and international level.
This Islam business kidnapped me.
Wotan of Walhalla,
A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.
Pir Sain was a symbol of munafiqat.
I was a soldier.
This was a jehad.
[Mullah Omar] gave himself this religious title. So it was something that all those people there who swore an oath of loyalty to him as a religious leader could not easily get rid of.
My name is Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown. I am a devoted servant of Allah, and an unwavering devotee to His cause. For more than 30 years, I have been tormented and persecuted by my enemies for reasons of race and belief.
To know the Truth and stand for more than
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Babaji
I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One.
Churches and mosques you shall not heed / The religion of Albanians is Albanism
A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul.
The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.
He philosophy of Islam will be shown in terms of the modern philosophy, and if there are imperfections in the old ideas then they shall be removed. My task is merely constructive, and in this construction I shall take into consideration the best traditions of Islamic philosophy.
In Sufi terms, there are two very interesting notions of transcendence. One is to gaze out at the universe and to comprehend that what you see out there reflects what you are. The other one is to look inside yourself and recognise that the universe is present there.
Religion was the glue of Pakistan, holding the halves together; just as consciousness, the awareness of oneself as a homogenous entity in time, a blend of past and present, is the glue of personality, holding together our then and our now.
Who is so fancy, esoterica saves the day?
Who is the Yogi, Namaste?
You will never be Able :
To Parasitize Upon My Good Soul And Heart
Because of My Real Strong Goodness :
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There is nothing wrapped in my turban but God,
..Imam Ali [A]..
'However knows himself (his soul or spirit) knows [or has known] his Lord
Of whomsoever I had been Master (Mawla), Ali here is to be his Master. O Allah, be a supporter of whoever supports him (Ali) and an enemy of whoever opposes him.
I had a long conversation with the imam, the Grand Imam of the Al-Azhar University, and I know how they think ... They seek peace, encounter.
If you want a Khadija, you gotta be a Muhammed