Culture Quote by Youssou N'Dour

If anybody asks what Sufism is, what kind of religion is it, the answer is that Sufism is the religion of the heart, the…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

We view Sufism not as an ideology that molds people to the right way of belief or action, but as an art or science…

— Idries Shah

Sufism is not a religion or a philosophy, it is neither deism nor atheism, nor is it a moral, nor a special kind of…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

I am not a Sufi, but I follow the Sufi.

— Anonymous

“Sufism, the "secret tradition," is not available on the basis of assumptions which belong to another world, the world of intellect.”

— Idries Shah

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says…

— Naguib Mahfouz

Sufis have always been those that have tried to purify the ethics of Islam and society. And they don't have their hands cut off…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

To those who say "Sufism is apolitical" or "no politics," I respond: "No politics is politics." Look at the very old African Sufi tradition,…

— Tariq Ramadan

The religion of the Sufi is the religion of the heart. The principal moral of the Sufi is to consider the heart of others,…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

“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

True Sufism is resistance: spiritual, intellectual, social, cultural, political and economic resistance. It cannot be, for sure, supporting dictators.

— Tariq Ramadan

“Sufism is experiential”

— Idries Shah