Wisdom

"Better to quarrel with a friend than to support enemies."

"Abu-Yaqub al-Susi: the Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not."

"A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years’ sincere, obedient dedication."

"Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: ‘Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue’."

"Now that I have found thee, I know that in the first step I took, I moved away from thee."

"None meets harm who knows his capacity."

"No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue."

"Rust through washing never became white."

"Knowledge. How curious that a man who closes his hand upon air so often thinks that he has a ruby within his grasp."

"THE BIRD AND THE WATERA bird which has not heard of fresh water Dips his beak in salt-water year after year.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)"

"THE HEAVENSTo the mallet of the Highest Mind The heavens are the smallest possible ball.(Akhlaq-i-Mohsini)"

"Even if false gold makes a man happy:At the mint it will be identified."

"Sufism is experience, and hence not to be defined – imprisoned – in perennial, static categories."

"No colour comes after black."

"SENTENCES OF THE KHAJAGANRUDBARI : Heart to heart is an essential means of passing on the secrets of the Path."

"The power of Allah: no sound, no shape, no form. But when it manifests, none can resist it."

"What goes into a salt-mine becomes salt."

"You make me a sinner if you stop me giving you hospitality."

"It will pass, whatever it is."

"You will never reach Mecca, I fear: for you are on the road to Turkestan."