Sufi Quotes

“A Pharaoh said, “I am God” and was laid low; a Mansur
(Hallaj) said, “I am God” and was saved.
The former “I” is followed by God’s curse and the latter
“I” by God’s mercy, O loving man;
For that one (Pharaoh) was a black stone, this one (Hallaj) a
cornelian; that one was an enemy to the Light, and this one
passionately enamoured (of it).”
― Rumi, The Mathnawi of Jalalud'din Rumi, Translation of Books III and IV

“Majnun may gaze at Layla‘s beauty, but this Layla is only a mirror […] God with Majnun‘s eye looks upon His own beauty in Layla, and through Majnun He loves Himself.”
― Fakhruddin Iraqi, Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes

“If You are Everything
then who are all these people?
And if I am nothing
what's all this noise about?
You are Totality,
everything is You. Agreed.
Then that which is "other-than-You"-
what is it?
Oh, indeed I know:
Nothing exists but You
...”
― Fakhruddin Iraqi, Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes

“You are the cloud that veils your own sun. Know the essential reality of your being. (Kitab al-isra/The Book of Nocturnal Voyage, p. 4.)”
― Ibn al-Husayn al-Sulami, The Way of Sufi Chivalry

“It is in the heart that the mystery of spiritual conception takes place. This is not the physical heart but what the Sufis call the heart of hearts. The heart of hearts is the heart of the Self which is on the right side of the physical body. In the moment of spiritual conception a special energy is infused into this heart which makes it spin in a particular way. I once had a vision in which my heart was cut open with a knife, taken out and breathed upon—the dust was blown off—and then spun. My teacher did not interpret this inner happening but said that I would come to understand it. Years later I heard her say to someone else that once the heart has been spun in this way it remains spinning for the rest of that person’s incarnation. The divine energy of the Self vibrates at a higher frequency to our ordinary human self. Through the spinning of the heart, the higher consciousness of the Self is able to be integrated into the lower vehicles, into the denser dimensions of the human being. All the wayfarer’s spiritual work has been a preparation for this moment, and from now on the work will be to give birth to this seed of consciousness, to attune one’s waking consciousness to the higher vibrations of the Self that are now spinning within the heart. This is the gradual process of awakening to the consciousness of the heart, opening the eye of the heart through which the Beloved is able to experience His creation.

Sufis are known as “a brotherhood of migrants who ‘keep watch’ on the world and for the world,” because through the open eye of His lovers’ hearts the Beloved keeps watch on the world. Through His lovers’ hearts humanity is kept attuned to the Beloved. Just as a single heart is spun when the individual is ready to contain the higher energy of the Self, so does this same process happen with a group. When the group has a central core bonded together in love then its collective heart, its central core of light, is spun. In order to help this process, groups of souls that have been bonded together in past lifetimes are forming specific groups. They hold the spiritual core of the group that allows many others to be included in this dynamic unfolding. The spinning hearts of the lovers of God are forming the map made of points of light which I referred to in the previous chapter. At this time His lovers are being positioned around the planet. Some have already been positioned. Some are moving to physical locations while others are having their hearts awakened to this hidden purpose. Slowly this map is being unfolded, and in certain important places lovers are forming clusters of points of light. Certain spiritual groups have been formed or are being formed to contain these clusters as dynamic centers of light.

When this map of light around the world is fully unfolded it will be able to contain and transform the energy structure of the planet. It has the potential to be the bond that will enable the world soul, the anima mundi, to be impregnated with a higher consciousness. The hearts of His lovers form part of the hidden heart of the world. As this map is unfolding so their spinning hearts can open the heart of the world. At this moment in cosmic time the planet is being aligned with its inner source, allowing the world to be infused with a certain cosmic energy that can dramatically speed up the evolution of this planet. If the heart of the world opens, it can receive this frequency of cosmic energy and directly implant it into the hearts of people. This would alter human life more than we could imagine. It is to help in this opening of the heart that many old souls have incarnated at this particular time and are working together. (p. 36 - 38)”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, The Bond with the Beloved: The Mystical Relationship of the Lover & the Beloved

“Humanity is the highest form of love there is, and love needs no lobby, label or ideology, for love itself is everything that is human about us - we are either living in it, enveloped in its wholeness or we are analyzing it with intellect from outside while dying for a taste of it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“Books, intellect, facts - all these are mere dust in front of love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law

“O ritualist, Majnu!
Your torn clothes, tattered look,
shouting her name; is of no use.
Go, fall in love with Laila first.”
― Hasnain Waris

“The more I gaze
at Your face, the more
my eyes incline
toward Your vision
like one who dies of thirst
by the ocean shore,
lips to the wave,
thfrstier and thirstier.”
― Fakhruddin Iraqi, Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes

“The more I gaze
at Your face, the more
my eyes incline
toward Your vision
like one who dies of thirst
by the ocean shore,
lips to the wave,
thirstier and thirstier.”
― Fakhruddin Iraqi, Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes

“Once we see the world for what it is, we see that it is nothing but dhikr Allâh—a reminder of God, a mention of God, a remembrance of God. Our response to the world can only be to follow its lead—to mention and to remember God. “Everything is accursed,” says the hadîth, “except dhikr Allâh.” But everything is dhikr Allâh, so nothing is accursed. The alchemy of dhikr transmutes the accursed into the blessed. The place of that dhikr, where God becomes truly present and man becomes truly blessed, is the heart. – William C. Chittick (On the Cosmology of Dhikr, p. 63)”
― James S. Cutsinger, Paths to the Heart: Sufism and the Christian East

“En büyük aşk, insanların aşkı.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

“En büyük aşk, insanlara aşkı.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

“Leave things in the hands of God.”
― Ibn al-Husayn al-Sulami, The Way of Sufi Chivalry

“Whether a friend is with you or away from you, continue loving him. 'Umar ibn Ahmad recites a poem of Yazid al-Muhallabi:

If you part from us, may God lead You
to beautiful places.
When you come to us, you are always welcome.
When you go, do not fear that we will ever forget you.
When you come, do not feel that we will ever have
enough of you.

(p. 95)”
― Ibn al-Husayn al-Sulami, The Way of Sufi Chivalry

“The best behavior is to see a gift of Allah in everything you receive. (p. 102)”
― Ibn al-Husayn al-Sulami, The Way of Sufi Chivalry

“I have loved in life and I have been loved.
I have drunk the bowl of poison from the hands of love as
nectar, and have been raised above life’s joy and sorrow.
My heart, aflame in love, set afire every heart that came in
touch with it.
My heart has been rent and joined again;
My heart has been broken and again made whole;
My heart has been wounded and healed again;
A thousand deaths my heart has died, and thanks be to love, it
lives yet.
I went through hell and saw there love’s raging fire, and I
entered heaven illumined with the light of love.
I wept in love and made all weep with me;
I mourned in love and pierced the hearts of men;
And when my fiery glance fell on the rocks, the rocks burst
forth as volcanoes.
The whole world sank in the flood caused by my one tear;
With my deep sigh the earth trembled, and when I cried aloud
the name of my beloved, I shook the throne of God in
heaven.
I bowed my head low in humility, and on my knees I begged
of love,
“Disclose to me, I pray thee, O love, thy secret.”
She took me gently by my arms and lifted me above the earth,
and spoke softly in my ear,“My dear one, thou thyself art love, art lover, and thyself art
the beloved whom thou hast adored.”

COMPLETE SAYINGS , 693”
― Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Heart of Sufism: Essential Writings of Hazrat Inayat Khan

“The symbol of the Sufi Movement, which is a heart with wings, denotes its ideal. The heart is both earthly and heavenly. The heart is a receptacle on earth of the divine Spirit, and when it holds the divine Spirit, it soars heavenward; the wings picture its rising. The crescent in the heart symbolizes responsiveness. It is the heart that responds to the spirit of God which rises. The crescent is a symbol of responsiveness because it grows fuller as the moon grows fuller by responding more and more to the sun as it progresses. The light one sees in the crescent is the light of the sun. As it gets more light with its increasing response, so it becomes fuller of the light of the sun. The star in the heart of the crescent represents the divine spark which is reflected in the human heart as love, and which helps the crescent towards its fullness. The Sufi Message is the message of the day. It does not bring theories or doctrines to add to those already existing and which puzzle the human mind. What the world needs today is the message of love, harmony, and beauty, the absence of which is the only tragedy of life. The Sufi Message does not give a new law; it awakens in humanity the spirit of brotherhood, with tolerance on the part of each for the religion of the other, with forgiveness from each for the fault of the other. It teaches thoughtfulness and consideration, so as to create and maintain harmony in life; it teaches service and usefulness, which alone can make life in the world fruitful, and in this lies the satisfaction of every soul.”
― Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Heart of Sufism: Essential Writings of Hazrat Inayat Khan

“In reality the Spirit of Guidance may be pictured as one thread; and all the great masters of humanity are like the beads on that thread. One spirit and many individualities; one soul and many personalities; one wisdom and many teachers who have expounded wisdom according to their own personality. But at the same time, wisdom always being one, they cannot be compared with different scientists. For scientists, when they have discovered something new, say they have made a new discovery; but the prophets have never said that they had made a new discovery. They have always said, “What those who came before me perceived I perceive, and those who come after thousands of years will perceive the same.” Yet in spite of that it is always new, for every moment has its new joy. As Hafiz says, “Sing, my soul, a new song that every new moment inspires in you.” Once the soul awakens, it begins to see that truth is always new and renews the soul, giving it perpetual youth. When one finds differences between the teachers of humanity, these are only in the lives they lived. But no matter what their life was, whether they were kings or faqirs, whether they walked or rode on an elephant’s back, whether they were on a throne or in mountain caves or in deserts, they all had the same experience: realization. They might appear to be comfortable and rejoicing, but they heard the same note which others heard in tortures. Those who were kings such as Solomon and David, and those who were sages such as Krishna and Buddha, all these different souls had the same realization, the same philosophy. There could never be an argument if they were all to meet. But they are not meant to meet because they are all one. It was the Spirit of Guidance which manifested through all these different names and forms.”
― Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Heart of Sufism: Essential Writings of Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Siz benim kardeşlerimsiniz. Siz yeni Naskarlersiniz. Vicdanlı olun ve yeni bir vicdanlı dünya inşa edin.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“What is inside, is also outside,”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

“Hamzah’s sha’ir derived its original or primary influence not from the ruba’i, but from the four-line shi’r of Ibnu’l-Arabi and ‘Iraqi which forms the bulk of quotations of Sufi poetry in his works.”
― Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, The Origin of the Malay Sha'ir

“It seems to me that apart from the aptness of the Malay language in the construction of four-lined verses with a AAAA pattern of rhyme, the influence of Ibnu’l-‘Arabi’s and ‘Iraqi’s four-line shi’r and Jami’s ruba’i, the concept of the bayt and the shi’r in Arabic and Persian prosody, the creative genius of the poet, Hamzah’s choice of the four-line shi’r composed of a single bayt could well have been influenced also by the symbolism in the Sufi doctrines.”
― Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, The Origin of the Malay Sha'ir

“The analogy of the fourfold Law Way, Truth and Gnosis in which they are compared to a house may be said to be a static one, and this is because what is aimed at here is comprehension of the concept of the absolute unity of the Way to the Truth; but the spiritual journey itself is a dynamic concept, and hence sometimes the fourfold unity of the Way to the Truth is also to a ship (kapal) whose keel is like the Law, whose planks are like the Way, whose content or merchandise is like the Truth and whose gain is like the spiritual gain of Gnosis.”
― Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, The Origin of the Malay Sha'ir

“İNSAN yani İyilik,
İNSAN yani Nur,
İNSAN yani Sabır,
İNSAN yani Akıl,
İNSAN yani Nezaket.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Kelmarin
kemabukan cinta ini membawaku
ke pintu Cinta
namun, hari ini
tidak pula lagi kutemui pintu
mahupun rumah Cinta itu.

(Mabuk Cinta)”
― Raden M Kamil, Cinta Telah Menjadikan Ku Asing

“Tuhanku,
betapa titisan airmataku
dibandingkan Lautan Kasih-Mu
betapa darah dalam tubuhku
dibandingkan darah para syuhada-Mu!

(Menemui A’yan Tsabitah)”
― Raden M Kamil, Cinta Telah Menjadikan Ku Asing

“Herkes benim ailem.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“I want to be a thief,
A thief of a different kind and nature,

I want to be a thief in the house of God,
A thief who would instead of stealing put his heart in the house of God,

I want to be a thief who wants to be clear with his theft,
A thief who knows who's the house he is in and what he is invading,

I want to be a thief who after getting catch surrenders,
A thief who gets caught red-handedly with his theft,


I want to be a thief who wishes to get caught,
A thief who wishes to be caged in Divine Jail.”
― Aiyaz Uddin, Science Behind A Perfect Life

“Morality is acknowledging Blacks and Whites(Right/Wrong), of life. Spirituality is accepting the thousands of grays life has to offer.”
― Hasnain Waris