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Although human mobility has increased, human assumptions have not kept pace. Human knowledge may have increased but human assumptions have remained fairly constant.

They asked Abboud of Omdurman: ‘Which is better, to be young or to be old?’ He said: ‘To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse.

The pathways into Sufic thinking are, it is traditionally said, almost as varied as the number of Sufis in existence.

Unbelief and belief are both marching on His road, while both are saying, ‘He is one and He has no associates’.

Hay tantos caminos hacia la verdad como almas humanas.

The question of divine knowledge is so deep that it is really known only to those who have it.

If you want to know what he’s like – reverse what his opponents say.

Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought.

But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH ‘things of the world’.

Why do people always wonder whether books are any good, without wondering whether they are themselves in a state to profit from them?

The Sufis regard systems which treat everyone alike as mechanical and degenerate.

Sufis can teach in any vehicle, whatever its name.

Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do. Saadi teaches: ’when the generous promise, they perform.

The aspirant has to be guided by a mentor. The stage at which this guidance can take effect is seldom, if ever, perceptible to the learner.

Hay un tipo de hombre peor que un hombre jactancioso: uno que se queja.

Sufism is education, in that it has a body of knowledge which it transmits to those who have not got it.

The false student is the one whose eyes are fixed upon heaven because his feet are planted in mud.

At His door, what is the difference between Moslem and Christian, virtuous and guilty? At his door all are seekers and He the sought.

Knowledge gives nothing to a man until he gives everything to it.

Knowledge of yourself may involve, if we are learning at the present time, a knowledge of the way of thinking of your society and to realise that you are probably its product, and that this knowledge can be attained in fact by such anthropological and psychological observations made by the Sufis in the course of their teaching how to pursue new and more promising extra perspectives.

You may not appreciate Sufism at first, but once you do you will appreciate it until the end of your days.

The intellect is not sovereign: knowledge is.

The best player of a game is the watcher – ask him.

Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything.” Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi.

Our heads are filled with ‘knowledge’, a knowledge that in some areas pre-empts our seeing anything at all.

You will always have doubts, but only discover them at a useful time for your weakness to point them out.

There is one kind of man worse than a boastful man: a complaining one.

The teacher works in accordance with the prospects of his students and the possibility of maintaining the community of Sufis.

When you feel least interested in following the Way which you have entered, this may be the time when it is most appropriate for you.

Most people, whatever their opinions and protestations, do not want to learn.

Sufism is the essence of all religions.

Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society.

There is a saying that, according to what a person’s mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a devil’s face.

One should not pray if that prayer is vanity.

Uno de los grandes Sufis dijo: “Un santo es un santo a menos que sepa que lo es”.

A Sufi is one who is not bound by anything nor does he bind anything.

Religion, for instance, cannot be accepted or rejected out of hand, until the student knows exactly what religion means.

Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there.

Salute to the Thief. Junaid of Baghdad was passing the scene of a public hanging, where a thief was on the scaffold. Junaid bowed towards the criminal. Someone asked him: ‘What did you do that?’ Junaid said: ‘I was bowing before his single-mindedness. For his aim, that man has given his life.

Sufism, the “secret tradition,” is not available on the basis of assumptions which belong to another world, the world of intellect.

We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory.

You cannot learn more until you can learn more.

Trust is needed before lessons can be learnt.

Wisdom gives honour to nobility, and nobility to everything else.

And Rumi tells us, ‘Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue’.

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia.

Those who say ‘I am ready to learn’, or ‘I am not ready to learn’ are as often mistaken as they are correct in their surmise.

He who sleeps on the Road will lose either his hat or his head.

Learn how much knowledge is needed before we can see how ignorant we are.

The teacher is one who abandons ceremonial and religious display and social appearances, and concentrates on real development.