Tabrizi Quotes

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

Saib Tabrizi

#2. Surrendering is not a weakness. At the contrary it is strength. The surrender stops living in boiling water and starts living in a secure place.

Shams Tabrizi

#3. You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.

Shams Tabrizi

#4. When a sincere woman begins to dance, the seven heavens, the earth, and all creatures begin to dance.

Shams Tabrizi

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

Saib Tabrizi

#6. 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.

Saib Tabrizi

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

Saib Tabrizi

#8. Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul of fire! The universe turns differently when fire loves water.

Shams-i Tabrizi

#9. The life we live is just a colourful and deposit toy.
Some of us take it so seriously and fight and cry for it.
Some of us break and throw it.
Either we give extreme importance, either not enough.
Better to stay far from extremes.

Shams Tabrizi

#10. The whole universe is sum up in the Human Being. Devil is not a monster waiting to trap us, He is a voice inside. Look for Your Devil in Yourself, not in the Others. Don't forget that the one who knows his Devil, knows his God.

Shams Tabrizi

#11. When you oppose the shaykh, it's like the slave who kills himself over a quarrel with his master. Hey, why are you killing yourself over a quarrel?He says, So my master will suffer loss.

Shams Tabrizi

#12. Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.

Shams Tabrizi

#13. We can only learn and advance with contradictions.
The faithful inside should meet the doubtful. The doubtful should meet the faithful. Human slowly advances and becomes mature when he accepts his contradictions.

Shams-i Tabrizi

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

Saib Tabrizi

#15. Being the companion of the folk of this world is fire. There must be an Abraham if the fire is not going to burn [you].

Shams Tabrizi

#16. The words we use for the Creator are a reflect of ourselves. If we think of God as fear and shame, we are scared and have something to be ashamed of ... But if we see love, compassion and kindness, it is because we possess these qualities.

Shams Tabrizi

#17. When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness. Human should be like a pot. As the pot is hold by its emptiness inside, human is hold by the awareness of his nothingness.

Shams Tabrizi

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

Saib Tabrizi

#19. If you expect respect from others, show it first to yourself. You can't expect from others what you don't give to yourself.

Shams Tabrizi

#20. Wherever you go, east, west, north or south, think of it as a journey into yourself! The one who travels into itself travels the world.

Shams Tabrizi

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

Saib Tabrizi

#22. There may be one fault in a man that conceals a thousand qualities, or one excellence that conceals a thousand faults. The little indicates much.

Shams Tabrizi

#23. Instead of resisting to changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think 'My life will be upside down' don't worry. How do you know down is not better than upside?

Shams Tabrizi

#24. The past is a fog on our minds. The future? A complete dream. We can't neither guess the future, neither change the past.

Shams Tabrizi

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

Saib Tabrizi

#26. Whoever lives as he sees fit will not die as he sees fit.

Shams Tabrizi

#27. If parts are always changing, the whole remains the same. A dead good man is replaced by a good man, a dead bad man is replaced by a bad man. While the whole remains the same, every day is different.

Shams Tabrizi

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

Saib Tabrizi

#29. If you look around, you can find a face of God in each thing, because He is not hidden in a church, in a mosque, or a synagogue, but everywhere. As there is no one who lives after seeing him, there is also no one dying after seeing him. Who finds Him, stays forever with him.

Shams Tabrizi

#30. The real dirt is not outside, but inside, in our hearts.
We can wash all stains with water. The only one we can't remove is the grudge and the bad intentions sticking to our hearts.

Shams-i Tabrizi

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

Saib Tabrizi

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

Saib Tabrizi

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

Saib Tabrizi

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

Saib Tabrizi

#35. It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come.

Shams Tabrizi

#36. The spirit is the mirror; the body is the rust.
(Divan-i-Shamsi Tabriz)

Idries Shah

#37. The salat can be made up for, but there is no making up for false show or outward worship without presence.

Shams Tabrizi

#38. Love is a travel. All travelers whether they want or not are changed. No one can travel into love and remain the same.

Shams Tabrizi

#39. Do not worry about tricks and cheaters. If some people are trying to trap and hurt you, Allah is also trapping them. Hole diggers will always fall in their holes. No bad remains unpunished, and no good remains without being awarded, so have faith in justice and let the rest be.

Shams Tabrizi

#40. There are more fake guides, teachers in the world than stars. The real guide is the one who makes you see your inner beauty, not the one who wants to be admired and followed.

Shams Tabrizi

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

Saib Tabrizi

#42. If the human being is a proud and honorable creature, he shouldn't forget to act that way, even if he falls, even if the whole world is against him, even if he ends as a slave.

Shams Tabrizi

#43. Alms in secret extinguish the wrath of the Lord means you are so immersed in sincerity and in preserving that sincerity that you have no pleasure in giving alms.

Shams Tabrizi

#44. Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart.

Shams Tabrizi

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

Saib Tabrizi

#46. Remove all the walls and curtains so you can get closer and purely love. Have principles but do not use them to exclude or to judge the others. Stay far from idols, specially from those you made from your own principles. Have a powerful faith, but do not play the powerful.

Shams Tabrizi

#47. You can be everything in life but the important thing is to be a good person.

Shams Tabrizi

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

Saib Tabrizi

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

Saib Tabrizi

#50. 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.

Saib Tabrizi

#51. You learn by reading but understand by LOVE.

Shams Tabrizi

#52. If you are insulted, if you are accused, if they gossip about you, don't say anything bad. Don't be the one who sees the shame, be the one who corrects it.

Shams Tabrizi

#53. It is easy to love perfection. The difficulty consists in loving the human with his good and bad. We mostly know as much as we love. Only loving God but not its creatures, you can never really know, neither really love.

Shams Tabrizi

#54. This world is like a mountain. Your echo depends on you. If you scream good things, the world will give it back. If you scream bad things, the world will give it back. Even if someone says badly about you, speak well about him. Change your heart to change the world.

Shams Tabrizi

#55. Most of conflicts and tensions are due to language. Don't pay so much attention to the words. In love's country, language doesn't have its place. Love's mute.

Shams Tabrizi

#56. 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.

Saib Tabrizi

#57. A good man complains of no one; he does not look to faults.

Shams Tabrizi

#58. Don't search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in hell.

Shams Tabrizi

#59. The summary of the advice of all prophets is this;
Find yourself a mirror.

Shams Tabrizi

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

Saib Tabrizi