Saib Tabrizi Quotes & Sayings

#1. The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends.

#2. The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper.

#3. Formerly, people used to grieve over the departed, but in our days they grieve over the survivors.

#4. The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

#5. Flowers and fruit are never combined in one place: it is impossible that teeth and delicacies should exist simultaneously.

#6. When poison becomes a habit, it ceases to injure: make your soul gradually acquainted with death.

#7. The rosary in the hand, repentance on the lips, and the heart full of sinful longings-sin itself laughs at our repentance!

#8. In this market every head has a different fancy: everyone winds his turban in a different fashion.

#9. If I am mad, then who on the face of the earth is sane? If you are sane, then there is no madman in the world.

#10. What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.

#11. When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning.

#12. The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation.

#13. The weeping of the candle is not in mourning for the moth: the dawn is at hand, and it is thinking of its own dark night.

#14. Become placeless, for to change this place of water and clay is but to move from one prison to another.

#15. Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.

#16. The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal?

#17. Seek for the truth from the heart which is empty of thought.

#18. Peace is in proportion to every pause: observe the difference between to run, to walk, to stand, to sit, to lie, to die.

#19. To quit this troubled world is better than to enter it: the rosebud enters the garden with straitened heart and departs smiling.

#20. To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.

Saib Tabrizi Quotes