Sufi Quotes

• Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Taken
  • Christian
  • Religious

• Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature

  

  Idries Shah
  • Important
  • Words
  • Attention

• The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Knowledge
  • Practice
  • Sufi

• 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.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Taken
  • Care
  • One

• I am not a Sufi, but I follow the Sufi.

  

  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
  • Follow
  • Sufi

• In Sufi terms the crushing of the ego is called Nafs Kushi. And how do we crush it? We crush it by sometimes taking ourselves to task. When the self says, 'O no, I must not be treated like this,' then we say, 'What does it matter?' When the self says, 'He ought to have done this, she ought to have said that,' we say, 'What does it matter, either this way or that way? Every person is what he is; you cannot change him, but you can change yourself.' That is the crushing. ... It is only in this way that we can crush our ego.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Ego
  • Sufi
  • Nafs Kushi

• The religion of the Sufi is the religion of the heart. The principal moral of the Sufi is to consider the heart of others, so that in the pleasure and displeasure of his fellow-man he sees the pleasure and displeasure of God.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Heart
  • Religion
  • Principal moral