Sufi Quotes

Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani (RA) "The best of men is the person who is most beneficial to others" '"Everything that you rely on, every person you afraid of or you keep that trust in, becomes your God." "Many wealthy people because of greed are poor and needy, in reality the brave person is he who wrestles and defeats the devil of greed and thereafter becomes independent and without want of need from this material World" "Your most real enemies are the greed, the envy and the jealousy that live in your heart. These are the soldiers of the instigating self (an-nafs al-ammara)" "There are 3 types of creation 1. Angels...

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Mawlana Jalauddin Rumi Quotes

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Unity

"There is only one truth that covers all"  - Sufi Proverb "O you who believe" in the all Merciful, The One that is kind to all his creations.  Treat each other with Respect & Kindness. To be righteous and to stand for truth , that is the true purpose of life. You win only through Kindness, Respect, love for other human beings. All creatures, human beings deserve to live as you do, they were all created by the same hand. "Your task is not to seek for love,but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."- Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi The Barriers of Race,...

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The Value of Truth by Mullah Nasrudin

The Value Of Truth "If you want truth",  Nasrudin told a group of Seekers who had come to hear his teachings,  "you will have to pay for it." "But why should you have to pay for something like truth?" asked one of the company. "Have you noticed", said Nasrudin,  "that it is the scarcity of a thing which determines its value?" -Mullah Nasrudin Everything of value comes at a great price. All Awliya(saints) has given themselves and part of their lives to become a person of value. Greatness can't be achieve by sacrificing little. Become a person of value. ...

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Mir Baba Bulleh Shah Qadiri Shatari

Look into Yourself "Yes, yes, you have read thousands of booksbut you have never tried to read your own selfyou rush in, into your Mandirs, into your Mosquesbut you have never tried to enter your own heartfutile are all your battles with Satanfor you have never tried to fight your own desires." "I have got lost in the city of love, I am being cleansed, withdrawing myself from my head, hands and feet. I have got rid of my ego, and have attained my goal. Thus it has all ended well. O Bullah, the Lord pervades both the worlds; None now appears a stranger to me." "Neither Hindu nor Muslim,Sacrificing pride, let us sit together.Neither...

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Farid ud-Din Attar

In the Dead of night In the dead of night, a Sufi began to weep. He said, “This world is like a closed coffin, in which  We are shut and in which, through our ignorance, We spend our lives in folly and desolation. When Death comes to open the lid of the coffin, Each one who has wings will fly off to Eternity, But those without will remain locked in the coffin. So, my friends, before the lid of this coffin is taken off, Do all you can to become a bird of the Way to God; Do all you can to develop your wings and your feathers.” - Attar Translation by Andrew Harvey and Eryk Hanut From – ‘Perfume of the Desert’ Poem...

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Imam Ghazali's last word

Imam Ghazali woke up one early morning and as usual offered his prayers and then enquired what day it was, his younger brother, Ahmad Ghazali replied,"Monday." He asked him to bring his white shroud, kissed it, stretched himself full length and saying "Lord, I obey willingly," breathed his last. And underneath his head rest they found the following verses; composed by him, probably, during the night.         "Say to my friends, when they look upon me, dead         Weeping for me and mourning me in sorrow         Do not believe that this corpse you see is myself         In the name of God, I tell you, it is not I,         I am a spirit, and this is naught but flesh        ...

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