Sufi Quotes

Pride prevents one from knowing one’s real value, as haste leads one away from Truth, and as gentleness and thoughtfulness prevent regret, all power belongs to Allah.

Pride prevents one from knowing one’s real value, as haste leads one away from Truth, and as gentleness and thoughtfulness prevent regret, all power belongs to Allah.

Ibrahim Khawas

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God gives his servant no source of strength more powerful for him than when He leads him to humiliate himself.

God gives his servant no source of strength more powerful for him than when He leads him to humiliate himself.

Zunnoon Misri

Sufi Quotes

Poverty is the handmaiden that leads one to the nearness God.

Poverty is the handmaiden that leads one to the nearness God.

Abu Hafs Haddaad

Sufi Quotes

Permanent concentration upon the Divine Names in the retreat leads to mystical awareness.

Permanent concentration upon the Divine Names in the retreat leads to mystical awareness.

Khwaja Najmuddin Kubra

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Although hunger is an affliction to the body, it illumines the heart, purifies the soul, and leads the spirit into the presence of God.

Although hunger is an affliction to the body, it illumines the heart, purifies the soul, and leads the spirit into the presence of God.

Data Sahib

Sufi Quotes

Love leads to knowledge of the Divine mysteries and those who love to abide in God and look to Him only, and He is nearer to them than all else and to them in given a vision of Him unveiled and they see Him with the eye of certainty.

Love leads to knowledge of the Divine mysteries and those who love to abide in God and look to Him only, and He is nearer to them than all else and to them in given a vision of Him unveiled and they see Him with the eye of certainty.

Abu Talib Makki

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An anguish that awakens is far, far better than an amusement that leads to ignorance.

An anguish that awakens is far, far better than an amusement that leads to ignorance.

Wasif Ali Wasif

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For an Arif it is an ordinary miracle that he ascends beyond the Heaven by taking only one step and reaches the ‘Veil of Divine Glory’. But God alone knows the secret implications of that stage. He cannot say where it leads him ultimately to, and what he perceives in that mysterious state when he returns.

For an Arif it is an ordinary miracle that he ascends beyond the Heaven by taking only one step and reaches the ‘Veil of Divine Glory’. But God alone knows the secret implications of that stage. He cannot say where it leads him ultimately to, and what he perceives in that mysterious state when he returns.

Khwaja Gharib Nawaz

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When the Lord leads one to the Path, he dwells in the Plane of Unity with Him and none expect God knows about his state.

When the Lord leads one to the Path, he dwells in the Plane of Unity with Him and none expect God knows about his state.

Abul Hassan Kharqani

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O Brother! Sin for the servant is great calamity, May God protect us from such things! Sin in the beginning hardens the heart, which ultimately leads to unbelief and wretchedness. Don’t forget the wiles of Satan and the fate of Balaam Baour.

O Brother! Sin for the servant is great calamity, May God protect us from such things! Sin in the beginning hardens the heart, which ultimately leads to unbelief and wretchedness. Don’t forget the wiles of Satan and the fate of Balaam Baour.

Sheikh Sharfuddin Yahya Maneri

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Asceticism concerns the soul for the next world. True asceticism means the thrusting out from the heart of all worldly thoughts reckoning them as vanity. It leads ultimately to friendship with God.

Asceticism concerns the soul for the next world. True asceticism means the thrusting out from the heart of all worldly thoughts reckoning them as vanity. It leads ultimately to friendship with God.

Abu Talib Makki

Sufi-Terminology

Imaan-i-taqleedi: Those, whose imaan is taqleedi, believe in God without seeing and understanding set off to

Qissa

BAGH O BAHAR; OR TALES OF THE FOUR DERVISHES.

"When the princess received this agreeable intelligence, she was greatly pleased in her mind, and wrote

Amir Khusrau