Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi lite….

When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people n….

A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well..

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..

We view Sufism not as an ideology that molds people to the right way of belief or action, but as an art or science that can exert a beneficial influe….

It is not enough that there is a collection of people with the common aim of working in unison towards an objective... Aspiration and desire only are….

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being goo….

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, ho….

When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters..

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit..

When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for..

The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?.

When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty s….

Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you..

There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. Peo….

From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for othe….

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives..

You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end..

If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him..

The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love..

It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion..