Sufi Quotes Quotes

“Words have power, which is why Imam Ali says, “Speak only when your words are more beautiful than the silence.” After all, everything in existence sprouted from the vibration of the divinely uttered word “Be! And it is” (36:82). So remember, your tongue is like a knife; it can either kill like the sword of a samurai or save like the scalpel of a surgeon.”
― A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam

“People ignore death but death never ignores people.”
― Muslim Smiles

“Keep your mind strong with knowledge; keep your heart strong with faith.”
― Muslim Smiles

“Hearts may forgive but they never forget.”
― Muslim Smiles

“Do not break hearts, people do Ibadah in them.”
― Muslim Smiles

“Unfollow your heart if your heart is not following Allah.”
― Muslim Smiles

“We clean our house when we invite someone, we must clean our hearts if we want to invite Allah.”
― Muslim Smiles

“When a broken heart heals, it becomes stronger than anything in the world.”
― Muslim Smiles

“The world's poverty reveals the poverty of the hearts of rich and powerful.”
― Muslim Smiles

“Innocent people are not fools; they just think that everyone has a heart......”
― Muslim Smiles

“Peace and Jealousy cannot live in the same heart....one of them must leave.”
― Muslim Smiles

“The value of a heart increases with every break.”
― Muslim Smiles

“O heart, do not lose your kindness for kindness is your greatness.”
― Muslim Smiles

“It is not our appearances but our hearts that make us humans.”
― Muslim Smiles

“A person needs a great heart to achieve great things in life.”
― Muslim Smiles

“Among the sufis, one attains purity not by ritual ablution, not by faith and worship, not by deed or merit, but by direct knowledge, experience, certainty, the drunkenness of ecstatic realization. Only this intoxication truly purifies the soul, because with this "wine" one becomes lost, and finds oneself, within the heart. One loses all separative delusions, the dirt of a muffled consciousness, and attains the One. This is to wander nude in the bazaar, like a naked Qalandar. But if the bazaar is shocked, then scandal belongs to the bazaar, not the dervish. Like a drunkard, the suf loses his reputation in the world because the world has lost its reputation with him. The petty bazaar stands accused of hypocrisy; the naked man stands before God.”
― Peter Lamborn Wilson, Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy

“Love, then, is the binding power of being, on every level of reality. In fact, love is being and reality: love turning toward love in love with itself. Everything is on this track, and everything being/consciousness/bliss, whether it "knows" itself as such or not. But the soul which awakens and finds itself in the dance: that soul has won the bet.”
― Peter Lamborn Wilson, Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy

“The "peace" which Islam seeks in its arts arises not from hatred of the image, but rather from an alchemical spiritualization or sublimation of the senses. All Islamic art implies an Image, but one that cannot be openly stated: the Image of the One. Islamic art asks us to use our Imagination in an active relation between art-object and viewer, to allow the object to evoke our own creative apperception of Oneness.”
― Peter Lamborn Wilson, Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy

“A donkey stuck in mud is logic's fate
Love's nature only love can demonstrate”
― Rumi, The Masnavi of Rumi, Book One: A New English Translation with Explanatory Notes

“A donkey stuck in mud is logic's fate
Love's nature only love can demonstrate”
― Jawid Mojaddedi, The Masnavi: Book One

“Total submission to Allah swt brings peace of mind and heart.”
― Muslim Smiles

“We see our eyes with our own eyes, we see our mind with our own mind, and we see our heart with our own heart.”
― Muslim Smiles

“The one who carries the fire of true love in his heart, melts the hearts of others.. Like the winter sun melts the snow.”
― Muslim Smiles

“Anyone can build a masjid, because we all have hearts, turn your heart in to a beautiful place of Ibadah..... Build that masjid for Allah.”
― Muslim Smiles

“It will be hard to let go if you are holding it with your heart.”
― Muslim Smiles

“Metaphysical truth is scandalous; that is, it violates all the accepted modes of perception, all the ordinary, epistemologically neutral expectations of the sleeping soul. It tears open a curtain and reveals the occult; it unveils a beauty which is "forbidden" only because we ignore it in our stupor.”
― Peter Lamborn Wilson, Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy

“The perfect story is inconsequential. We are here a moment and just like that we are gone.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“Drown your ego before it drowns you.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“She had gone inward. It wasn't the divine journey Sufi mystics preach. She was numb with pain.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“The song ended but the music didn't.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish