Top Sufism Quotes

That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh).– Idries Shah

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

Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher.– Idries Shah

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all’.– Idries Shah

it was being written in the East that ‘Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality’.– Idries Shah

Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality.– Idries Shah

Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years’ time.– Idries Shah
Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years’ time.– Idries Shah

Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism.– Idries Shah

Sufism is therefore not ‘Do as I say and not as I do’, or even ‘Do as I do’, but ‘Experience it and you will know’.– Idries Shah
