Quotes About Naqshbandi

#1. None but the Creator has knowledge of the future; If anyone says he knows it, do not believe him! - Baba Musafir (d. 1714), a Naqshbandi Sufi saint, speaking about the war of succession among Aurangzeb's sons

Audrey Truschke

#2. The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

Stephen King

#3. Debating whether one trusts or not is a sign that one does not want to trust at all, and therefore is still incapable of it.

Idries Shah

#4. Any time a system that justifies power can be conceived of running without that power, all those who profit from the manipulation of that power cry out that without them, all is lost.

Stefan Molyneux

#5. If you forsake a path, it is because you were hoping for conviction from it. You seek conviction, not self-knowledge.

Idries Shah

#6. I like you. I like you so much that I ... I think about you an inadvisable amount. But I really need there to be some more ... dating in what we're doing. Can we not just go out some time, have drinks, walk home, kiss goodnight?

Charlotte Stein

#7. You may have forgotten the Way:
But those who came before
Did not forget you.
Saying of Master Bahaudin Naqshband of Bokhara

Idries Shah

#8. What I know now is that nothing is universally boring - what's boring to you could be totally engaging to someone else. If you're bored and hating it, it's a big sign that you're most likely just in the wrong place.

Sophia Amoruso

#9. When you feel least interested in following the Way which you have entered, this may be the time when it is most appropriate for you.

Idries Shah

#10. Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society.

Idries Shah

#11. The thing I feared was no longer my parents' authority over me but that they might haul out into the open their own intimate fears, their melancholy and regrets.

Zadie Smith

#12. Man is the being, among whom only a small minority of the elite ones, find the Greatness of Glorious God, from the study of things and therefrom acquire perfect faith. But the same tool has become the means of deviation for the rest of them.

Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani

#13. It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.

Sophie Swetchine

#14. Haitian diplomacy will be oriented toward the influx of foreign capital, direct investments that create jobs and stimulate economic growth.

Laurent Lamothe

#15. Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.

Idries Shah

#16. Whoever might perfume a scorpion
Will not thereby escape its sting. Bahaudin Naqshband

Idries Shah

#17. I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.

Beatrice Dalle