Sufi Quotes

Unveiling is the mystical perception of the saint but not through abstract or philosophical knowledge, but it is a vision clothed in form especially human form. It is cognitive but apparitional revealing knowledge through divine light.

Unveiling is the mystical perception of the saint but not through abstract or philosophical knowledge, but it is a vision clothed in form especially human form. It is cognitive but apparitional revealing knowledge through divine light.

Sheikh Ruzbihan Baqli

Sufi Quotes

It is easy to repent, but difficult to quit sins. One sin is more than enough, but thousand obedience little.

It is easy to repent, but difficult to quit sins. One sin is more than enough, but thousand obedience little.

Hazrat Jafar Sadiq

Sufi Quotes

Self-conceit destroys, but patience exalts an individual. The patient triumph while the conceited lose the day. Not by retaliation but by forbearance is Seif conquered.

Self-conceit destroys, but patience exalts an individual. The patient triumph while the conceited lose the day. Not by retaliation but by forbearance is Seif conquered.

Shah Abdul Lateef Bhitai

Sufi Quotes

None loves God but God, and there is no lover and no beloved but God. Lovers grasp this when they reach the point of seeing God in everything that exists.

None loves God but God, and there is no lover and no beloved but God. Lovers grasp this when they reach the point of seeing God in everything that exists.

Muhiuddin Ibn Arabi

Sufi Quotes

That servant who is claimant of Divine knowledge but seeks Peace in other than God, is entrapped in severe affliction. But when comely he seeks forgiveness of the Almighty, his affliction is eliminated.

That servant who is claimant of Divine knowledge but seeks Peace in other than God, is entrapped in severe affliction. But when comely he seeks forgiveness of the Almighty, his affliction is eliminated.

Ibrahim Khawas

Masnavi

zaa.n-ki aa.n but maar-o-ii.n but azhdahaast
aahan-o-sa.ngast nafs-o-but sharaar

Rumi

Sufi Quotes

Sometime auliya Allah unveil Divine mysteries, but they do it on account of their over-intoxicated state. But there are other consummate elect who never disclose arcane secrets of divinity.Thus it requires widest receptacle on Sufi path so that secrets of His divinity remain concealed.

Sometime auliya Allah unveil Divine mysteries, but they do it on account of their over-intoxicated state. But there are other consummate elect who never disclose arcane secrets of divinity.Thus it requires widest receptacle on Sufi path so that secrets of His divinity remain concealed.

Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki

Sufi Quotes

Water flows in the riverbed, but when it reaches the ocean, it Ceases to flow and changes its taste, so that those who desire water avoid it, but those who desire pearls dive into it.

Water flows in the riverbed, but when it reaches the ocean, it Ceases to flow and changes its taste, so that those who desire water avoid it, but those who desire pearls dive into it.

Data Sahib

Sufi Quotes

Many a life is tong in years but meager in fruits, and many a life is short in years but rich in fruits.

Many a life is tong in years but meager in fruits, and many a life is short in years but rich in fruits.

Ibn-e-Ataullah Sikandari

Persian Sufi Poetry

but tarsaa bachcha nuurii-ast zaahir
ki az ruu-e-butaa.n daarad mazaahir

Mahmood Shabistari

Ghazal

o but-e-naazuk jahaa.n hai och but-KHaana hai KHuub
hai makaa.n hor na.ii.n makiin tuu dasht-o-viiraana hai KHuub

Turab Ali Dakni

Ghazal

ye dil ka.abe kaa ka.aba hai ye but-KHaane kaa but-KHaana
ise kahte hai.n aashiq jalva-gaah-e-husn jaanaana

Anwar Firozpuri

Sufi Quotes

I know you're tired but come

I know you're tired but come, this is the way

Rumi

Sufi Quotes

Men are ever looking to the Ka'ba, but God is ever looking to the heart,

Men are ever looking to the Ka'ba, but God is ever looking to the heart,

Data Sahib

Sufi Quotes

Recollection of “There is no god but God”, is the highest of the seventy-seven signs of faith, for the Prophet said that “The loftiest of them is the testimony that there is no god but God.

Recollection of “There is no god but God”, is the highest of the seventy-seven signs of faith, for the Prophet said that “The loftiest of them is the testimony that there is no god but God.

Khwaja Najmuddin Kubra

Sufi Quotes

Everything depends on the Divine Will, but it Itself depends on nothing at all.

Everything depends on the Divine Will, but it Itself depends on nothing at all.

Ibn-e-Ataullah Sikandari

Sufi Quotes

Worldly tribulations, apparently are inflictions, but in reality they cause progress.

Worldly tribulations, apparently are inflictions, but in reality they cause progress.

Sheikh Ahmad Sarhindi

Sufi Quotes

Every work, spiritual or otherwise, appears difficult in the beginning but perseverence makes it easy.

Every work, spiritual or otherwise, appears difficult in the beginning but perseverence makes it easy.

Nizamuddin Auliya

Sufi Quotes

Be moderate in our worship of Him. Shun heaviness but be consistent.

Be moderate in our worship of Him. Shun heaviness but be consistent.

Imam Ghazali

Sufi Quotes

Be afraid of nothing but sins.

Be afraid of nothing but sins.

Hazrat Ali