Dhun-nun Quote by Idries Shah

“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

“One of the basic Sufi needs is to enable people to see themselves as they really are.”

— Idries Shah

“Sufism is, in operation, pragmatic.”

— Idries Shah

“Sufism is experiential”

— Idries Shah

“It is no accident that Sufis find that they can connect most constructively with people who are well integrated into the world, as well…

— Idries Shah

The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he…

— Idries Shah

“Sufism is known by means of itself.”

— Idries Shah

“The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds”

— Idries Shah

“The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.”

— Idries Shah

“Sufism is the essence of all religions.”

— Idries Shah

Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

“People talk of the Sufi way. Wrong. If there is a way, it’s not Sufism.”

— Art Hochberg