Idries Shah
"If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled."
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"If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled."
"إن كنت طمّاعًا، فأنت سجين؛ وإن كنت جشعًا، فلن تشبع أبدًا."
Idries Shah
"If you have two shirts, sell one and with the money buy a flower’."
"إذا كان لديك قميصان، فبع أحدهما واشترِ بثمنه زهرة."
Idries Shah
"A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years’ sincere, obedient dedication."
"لحظة وجيزة في حضرة الأولياء خير من مائة عام من العبادة المخلصة والطاعة."
Idries Shah
"Better to quarrel with a friend than to support enemies."
"أَنْ تُخاصِمَ صديقًا خيرٌ لك من أن تُساندَ أعداءً."
Idries Shah
"The mine is always bigger than the gem."
"المَنجمُ دائمًا أوسعُ من الجوهرة."
Idries Shah
"Whoever has not first dug a well, should not steal a minaret."
"من لم يحفر بئرًا أولًا، فلا يسرق مئذنة."
Idries Shah
"When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial."
"عندما تكون الصلاة والطقوس والحياة الزاهدة مجرد وسيلة لإشباع الذات، فإنها تكون ضارة أكثر منها نافعة."
Idries Shah
"Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society."
"الفهم والمعرفة إحساسان مختلفان تمامًا في عالم الحقيقة عما هما عليه في عالم المجتمع."
Idries Shah
"When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration."
"عندما تتوصل إلى مبدأ يتفق عليه الجميع، فإنك تبلغ بداية الرضا عن الذات والتدهور."
Idries Shah
"SOVEREIGNTYSovereignty is a wind of change. (Hariri)"
"السيادة رياح التغيير."
Idries Shah
"Angels are the powers hidden in the faculties and organs of man"
"الملائكة هي القوى الكامنة في ملكات الإنسان وأعضائه."
Idries Shah
"When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it."
"عندما يفعل الإنسان الأسمى شيئًا جديرًا بالإعجاب، يكون ذلك برهانًا على سيادته، لا غاية لها."
Idries Shah
"Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm."
"التنوير لا بد أن يأتي شيئًا فشيئًا، وإلا طغى."
Idries Shah
"The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'."
"يبدو لون الماء كلون الكأس الذي صُبّ فيه."
Idries Shah
"Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time."
"لا بد من إعداد دقيق قبل أن يتمكن الناس من إدراك شيء موجود طوال الوقت."
Idries Shah
"That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh)."
"إن ما يملك القدرة على إدراك الحقيقة الموضوعية هو، في التصوف، الروح البشرية."
Idries Shah
"When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters."
Idries Shah
"Treat this world as I do, like a wayfarer; like a horseman who stops in the shade of a tree for a time, and then moves on."
Idries Shah
"Saying of the Prophet. Lies, promises, trust He is not of mine who lies, breaks a promise or fails in his trust."
Idries Shah
"The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep."
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