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The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.

The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: ‘the Sufis are not merchants’.
– Idries Shah

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  1. Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always the same. – Idries Shah
  2. Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always the same. – Idries Shah
  3. Sufis deny the absolute reality of time, space and physical form. These things are both relative and local. They only appear to be absolute. – Idries Shah
  4. The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. – Idries Shah
  5. The Sufis,’ runs the saying, ‘understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds – Idries Shah
  6. One of the great Sufis said: ‘A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one. – Idries Shah
  7. Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity. – Idries Shah
  8. The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality. – Idries Shah
  9. Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path. – Idries Shah
  10. The practice of the Sufis is too sublime to have a formal beginning, – Idries Shah
  11. The Sufis have said: -˜The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness. – Idries Shah
  12. But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH ‘things of the world’. – Idries Shah
  13. Sufis hold that the superior experience and knowledge comes to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth,capacity,and earning of it. – Idries Shah
  14. Until you can understand illogicality, and the meaningfulness of it, shun the Sufis except for limited, precise, self-evident services. – Idries Shah
  15. A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information. – Idries Shah
  16. If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed. – Idries Shah
  17. Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community. – Aeschylus
  18. European merchants supply the best weaponry, contributing to their own defeat. – Sultan Salahuddin Ayubi
  19. Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing, make nothing but feed off another’s labor? – James Clavell
  20. There must be a demand, there must be an urge and there must be a will and where there is a demand and a will, there will also be a way. – Patience Johnson
  21. If you demand the collective to pay for your medical expenses, then be prepared for the collective to demand to make your medical decisions for you. – AE Samaan
  22. What is in great demand, but scarce, is expensive, but even when wisdom is not in demand it is priceless. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  23. The consequence of the demand for fast answers to complicated health matters is the endless demand for tests, diagnostics, and pharmaceuticals. – Archelle Georgiou
  24. need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power. – Henry Hazlitt
  25. Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days…it will demand absolutely everything of you. – Christy Hall
  26. There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating- people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. – Oscar Wilde
  27. He who is absolutely right is absolutely wrong – rassool jibraeel snyman
  28. Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life -¦ all areas of life. – Zig Ziglar
  29. Never lose time in sending the scapegoat to the slaughterhouse. – Ali Sheikh
  30. Life wasn’t about doubt, because if it was, we’d never get anything done. – Aishabella Sheikh
  31. Even the most popular people could feel lonely sometimes. – Aishabella Sheikh
  32. Love, is an unknown passion, for an unknown person, for an unknown reason. – Hamza Hassan Sheikh
  33. Islam affords women their rightful status, and encourages them to work in all sectors, as long as they are afforded appropriate respect. – Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan
  34. That’s the problem with any -˜simple truth’-”it always takes a gaggle of complete idiots or a team of all-knowing geniuses to miss it. – Ali Sheikh
  35. Nothing is illegal so long as you correct it before the SEC catches it. – Ali Sheikh
  36. He who does not know his past cannot make the best of his present and future, for it is from the past that we learn. – Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan
  37. Even when battered and broken, he was beautiful. Yes, a guy could be beautiful. Especially if that guy was Deandre. – Aishabella Sheikh
  38. In the beginning, there was nothing. And then BOOM! Universe. – Aishabella Sheikh
  39. Standing in Front of the Mirror of EternityDressed By True ExistenceLooking to Your Own RealityIn the Ocean of Oneness – Sheikh Nazim AlHaqqani
  40. He was smiling at her like she was something special. Did I agree with this smile? Maybe. – Aishabella Sheikh

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