The Golden Words of a Sufi Sheikh Quotes

“The flowers of your qualities will reveal your true nature. If you have the fragrance of God, you will have the fragrance of an insan kamil, a perfected man. There will be light in your face, beauty in your heart, and sweetness in your speech. (p. 399)”
― M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, The Golden Words of a Sufi Sheikh

“O man, correct your mind
Adopt God‘s qualities
And you will receive
The crown of God‘s kingdom.”
― M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, The Golden Words of a Sufi Sheikh

“All we have learned so far amounts to only a handful of earth. What we have yet to learn is as large as the whole world. There is so much to know about the mysteries and the wealth of Allah. There is so much more to be known, and we will learn it only as our wisdom develops. We must proceed slowly, always learning more and more. (p. 8)”
― M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, The Golden Words of a Sufi Sheikh

“When you become the light of wisdom, darkness can never conceal you. (p. 40)”
― M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, The Golden Words of a Sufi Sheikh

“The books in our hands can be consumed by fire, water, or air. But when God‘s words of wisdom are imprinted on our hearts, that is the Qur‘an, that is the Bible, that is the scripture, and nothing can consume them. (p. 18)”
― M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, The Golden Words of a Sufi Sheikh

“Let each of us reflect on this. O you who love God, you who have absolute faith in God! There is only one God and there is only one race. When we accept one God and one race, when we worship God without creating differences, then our prayers will be fulfilled. Only on that day will our prayers be genuine. All the time we fail to perceive that total oneness, our prayers will be the prayers which divide people. In the same way that satan divided people from one another, our prayers will divide people from one another. The qualities of satan separate us from Allah, and prayers which fail to perceive that there is only one God are prayers of separation. As long as division exists, true prayer does not exist. Only when we pray with the realization that we are all one, one family and one people, will true prayer to God occur. (p. 17)”
― M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, The Golden Words of a Sufi Sheikh

“With his iman, he will split open and sift everything he sees. He will pierce through it with his wisdom and his firm certitude and determination, without allowing his mind to become fatigued, without allowing his heart to give up. If he can continue to pierce and cut through what is within everything, he will see only Allah. He will see Allah‘s wealth, Allah‘s powers, Allah‘s qualities, and nothing else. In every moment, in every tree, in every flower, and in every blade of grass, he will see only God. In every tree, every fruit, every fragrance, every flower, every bird, every cow, every goat, in whatever he beholds he will see only the secret of Allah, the powers or wilayats of Allah, and the qualities of Allah. When he looks at an ant he will discover Allah‘s secrets. When he looks at a fruit he will be amazed and say, „What a wonder! How praiseworthy You are. How subtly You have created the fruit. What flavors it contains!“ If he looks at a honeybee he will see how much wisdom it has, how it builds its house, what qualities it has, and how it tastes the honey and shares it with everyone. (p. 4)”
― M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, The Golden Words of a Sufi Sheikh

“When we say Sufi we mean that state in which one has attained true wisdom. The state of the Sufi is the state in which, having controlled and subdued all the other states, one becomes the resplendent sun, the resplendent light of God. One who is in this state is called a Sufi, and the state is called Sufism, or Sufi-Sun. (p. 4)”
― M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, The Golden Words of a Sufi Sheikh