"When doctors differ who decides amid the milliard-headed throng? Who save the madman dares to cry: "'Tis I am right, you all are wrong"? "You all are right, you all are wrong," we hear the careless Soofi say, "For each believes his glimm'ering lamp to be the gorgeous light of day." "Thy faith why false, my faith why true? 'tis all the work of Thine and Mine, "The fond and foolish love of self that makes the Mine excel the Thine." Cease then to mumble rotten bones; and strive to clothe with flesh and blood The skel'eton; and to shape a Form that all shall hail as fair and good."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Richard Francis Burton, in The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sufism
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Sufism
23 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Sufism →
Related Quotes
"The mysticism of Islam is known as Sufism. "Sufis believe that the world can never remain without a qutb upon whom de…"
"A Sufi is he, who not only wears coarse woolen garment, but, at the same time has a heart which is pure and filled wi…"
"Their mystical path is the path of Love which ends with the realization of the absolute unification with the Reality."
"All things are but masks at God's beck and call, They are symbols that instruct us that God is all."
"Come you lost Atoms to your Centre draw, And be the Eternal Mirror that you saw: Rays that have wander'd into Darknes…"
"The Sea Will be the Sea Whatever the drop's philosophy."
"is an important part in the origination of gradual development of Sufism. Some say it is the seed or root of Sufism."
"The distinctiveness of consists in the “sanctification” of work, which plays an equally, if not more important, role …"
"To a Sufi the Teacher is never absent, whether he comes in one form or in a thousand forms he is always one to him, a…"
"Sufism has existed on the territory of what is now Kazakhstan for more than a [millennium]. It was largely suppressed…"