SHAMS TABRIZI

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.

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

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.'

Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.

If a person claims that he really loves someone, evidence is asked from him. And that evidence is the giving away of possessions, the granting of favors. Just as when Mevlana claimed that he loved me, when I came he granted me thousands of favors and protected me. I regard these all as a grace from God.

'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.

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

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

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

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

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].