You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.

It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.

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

Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.

A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.

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 influence on individuals and societies, in accordance with the needs of those individuals and societies ... Sufi study and development gives one capacities one did not have before.