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Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light. ↗

— Imam 'Abdallah ibn 'Alawi al-Haddad

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در غم ما روزها بی گاه شد روزها با سوزها همراه شد ↗

— Rumi

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Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy. ↗

— Said Nursi

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

— Idries Shah

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للعشاق صمت ...له مذاق الغناء ↗

— أحمد بهجت

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

— Idries Shah

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Islam and Sufism are one. Teaching that to understand Islam one must be a lover, how can one understand Islam when the heart is empty of love. ↗

— Zarina Bibi

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From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone. ↗

— Idries Shah

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Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases they have faithfully recorded the Sufis' own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. ↗

— Idries Shah

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Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic. ↗

— Idries Shah

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