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"It is not Sufism if it does not perform its function for you. A cloak is no longer a cloak if it does not keep a man warm."
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"Communicate at all times with the Creator."

"The kingdom of God is a fragment of heaven."
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"Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion."


"The bird which has no knowledge of pure water, has his beak in salt water all year round."


"Causes: As important a fact as any individual cause on earth is the vital incapacity of the human individual to distinguish between genuine cause and one which is foisted upon him by pressure, environment, propaganda, conditioning.If people had the sense they pretend to have, they would seek this fundamental distinction perceptible.Hardly anyone makes this effort. This is partly because it is an invisible but powerful part of their culture to teach that conditioned emotionality and 'causes' whose necessity, urgency or rightness is only conditioned into them, are necessarily, right."


"From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths " outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone."
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