The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.

Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.

There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.

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 not enough.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

A real secret is something which only one person knows.