Sufi Quotes

“For someone who lives in love, pain is nourishment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“God is an experience. God is the truth(reality). You cannot experience Him until you come out of your ego, conditioning. Like a man inside an a/c room cannot experience the real temperature of the place until he leaves that room.”
― Hasnain Waris

“Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning of it.”
― Idries Shah

“The world is magic and your job in this world is to find the magician behind the magic.”
― Aiyaz Uddin

“Falling in love is the rise of life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“Love is the seed, love is the tree, love is the shade.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“If you want to venture into an unknown zone. Get a map before you start, or trust someone who has been there. There's no third way.”
― Hasnain Waris

“Man, if not careful, can fall in love with his ugliness. Choose your love carefully.”
― Hasnain Waris

“Ego feels poor(needy) all the time.
It cannot think of giving; be it love, attention, money, care, even akind word. It is damn self-centered.”
― Hasnain Waris

“Only kafir is one without kindness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“Under this cloak is nothing but God. Introduce me as "Nobody, Son of Nobody".”
― Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir, Nobody Son of Nobody

“Either we are lovers or at death's door.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“Someone once asked a spiritual master, “What is the end of the path?” The master replied, “The path has no end because the Beloved has no end.”
― A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love Journal: Insightful Reflections that Inspire Hope and Revive Faith

“The human being was created for something more than just living and dying by our egos and desires. Like granite, our egos are transformed and purified by the heat of worldly trials and friction into the precious ruby of the spirit. We were not sent to this Earth to achieve something, but rather to become what we have always been—a mirror for the divine qualities of Allah. We were created to know, love and worship Allah through purifying our hearts and becoming representatives of Allah’s mercy upon all of creation without discrimination.”
― A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love Journal: Insightful Reflections that Inspire Hope and Revive Faith

“As Rumi says, “Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” As Muslims we are called to guide one another, advise one another and to celebrate one another. The Qur’an’s command toward “enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong” (Qur’an 3:104) is not an excuse for judging and shaming each other. As my teacher once said, “If you can’t counsel someone from love, then don’t counsel them because if you advise others from a place of judgment then you are fostering the quality of arrogance within you.”
― A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love Journal: Insightful Reflections that Inspire Hope and Revive Faith

“As Muslims we can advise one another from love, but the role of the Divine Judge, Al-Hakam, is purely reserved for Allah alone. As Muslims we can’t be harsh with the creation and expect the Creator of that creation to be soft with us. In fact, the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم tells us, “The merciful will be shown mercy by the Most Merciful. Be merciful to those on the earth and the One in the heavens will have mercy upon you.”
― A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love Journal: Insightful Reflections that Inspire Hope and Revive Faith

“I am the Ocean inside that never settles
You are the one responsible for tides within !”
― Dinakar Phillip

“When a man is discussing forms of charity he should undertake. He's not in a mood to discuss the sources of his income.”
― Hasnain Waris

“Saints seem to be enjoying and welcoming trials because it helps them prove their loyalty to the beloved. The immature seekers often misinterpret it and start treating it like a rule that one is supposed to starve, torture oneself to grow spiritually, even if they get mentally unfit and physically crippled in the process, and eventually spoil their growth prospects, due to their own foolishness. The philosophy that lies at the core of this belief is 'The worldly is bad', 'Material self should be discouraged to grow spiritually' and therefore the seeker should run away from everything worldly and disappear in the jungle to grow spiritually.”
― Hasnain Waris

“Ego feels poor(needy) all the time.
It cannot think of giving; be it love, attention, money, care, even a kind word. It is damn self-centered.”
― Hasnain Waris

“Heart Humanish (The Sonnet)

I am but a simple sufi,
What'll I do with applause!
If you want to give something,
Lend a corner in the heart of yours.
I am but a fumbling fakir,
What'll I do with all the gold!
Only with the touch of a kind heart,
We shall bring prosperity in our world.
I am but an ignorant dervish,
I don't know much ayat and psalm.
All I know is, love is the breath of life,
Without it, all progress is harm.
Rituals and intellect all will perish,
What will live on is the heart humanish.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“Man is a myth-maker. Myth, when manipulated by unregenerates, is an even more effective man-maker.”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

“I am a mechanic,
I repair and service hearts,
I am a diversity certified,
I repair and service every color heart,
I am God's authorized dealer,
I repair and service chosen hearts,
I am equal heart treatment service provider,
I repair and service every human hearts,
I am a restorer,
I clean dents, rusts, blockages and dead hearts,
I am the ignitor,
I put the spark of light within the hearts,
I am too was dead heart once,
Found a divine channel partner,
Who repaired my dead heart,
I am now the franchise owner of that shop that repairs those hearts.”
― Aiyaz Uddin, The Inward Journey

“I'm a soldier - a soldier of love! You may kill my body, but the love in my heart will live on.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Karadeniz Chronicle: The Novel

“Love alone can explain love, freedom alone can explain freedom, kindness alone can explain kindness, affection alone can explain affection.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“Submit to love, not to authority.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“As the thirteenth-century mystic Ibn Ata’ Allah Al- Iskandari says, “Don’t think you are veiled from Allah by something that is not Allah. There is nothing besides Allah. You are veiled from Him by the illusion that there is something other than Allah.”
― A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love Journal: Insightful Reflections that Inspire Hope and Revive Faith

“A shopkeeper had an assistant whose eyes were crossed and thus saw everything double. One day, the shopkeeper asked his assistant to grab a one-of-a-kind, expensive jar of rose water from the storeroom for a special customer. The assistant ran to the storeroom, only to return moments later and ask, “I see two jars, which one would you like me to bring?” The shopkeeper impatiently sighed, as he had grown accustomed to such questions. The shopkeeper decided to try a new tactic with his assistant so he said, “Break one of the jars and bring me the one that’s left!” The assistant apprehensively followed the shopkeeper’s orders and broke one of the jars, which of course caused “the other” jar to break too.”
― A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love Journal: Insightful Reflections that Inspire Hope and Revive Faith

“As an anonymous writer once said, “The light at the end of the tunnel is not an illusion, the tunnel is.” The declaration of la illaha illa Allah is a reminder that all shapes and forms are like a mirage before the face of God. Allah is the only Truth, Al- Haqq. As the mystics say, “The World is not Allah but there is nothing else but Allah.” Nothing moves without Him. Nothing lives and exists without Him. Allah’s spirit or ruh, was blown into the dead earth of humankind to give us life. We live because of Al-Hayy, The All-Living. We see because of Al-Basir, The All-Seeing. We hear because of As-Sami,’ The All-Hearing. Everything we are mirrors the beauty of our Lord. We are because He is.”
― A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love Journal: Insightful Reflections that Inspire Hope and Revive Faith

“Divinity in Its Transcendence, the Absolute before any Self-manifestation, cannot be contemplated, for contemplation implies a subject and an object, and the Absolute is beyond all duality, all "place" and all knowing. It is the Mystery, the utterly inscrutable secret in the deepest part of Being, veiled behind all the inmost veils, yet somehow luring and teasing the lover. And the lover waits outside the door, ready to surrender his life at a sign.”
― Peter Lamborn Wilson, The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry