Love …
… is a travel.
All travellers whether
they want or not
… are changed.
No one can travel
into Love …
… and remain the same. ”
– Shams-e-Tabriz rahimahu Llah –
10 Thursday May 2018
Posted Poetry, Shams-e-Tabriz
inLove …
… is a travel.
All travellers whether
they want or not
… are changed.
No one can travel
into Love …
… and remain the same. ”
– Shams-e-Tabriz rahimahu Llah –
18 Wednesday Apr 2018
Posted Poetry, Shams-e-Tabriz
inThe summary of the advice of all Prophets is this:
Find yourself a mirror.
– Shams-e-Tabrizi rahimahu Llah –
28 Tuesday Nov 2017
Posted Shams-e-Tabriz
inIf you see some blood here and there,
know it has fallen from my eye
– Shams-e-Tabriz (rahimhu Llah) –
11 Friday Aug 2017
Posted Rumi, Shams-e-Tabriz, Sufi stories
inShah Shams Tabrizi walked into Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi’s class and, pointing to the books, asked, ‘What is all this?’ Rumi replied, ‘This is something you don’t know.’
In an instant, Tabrizi picked up the books and flung them into the fountain.
‘What have you done?!’ shouted Rumi and his students, ‘Our books! How will we study without them?!’
‘What good is knowledge confined to books,’ said Tabrizi, ‘that it makes you dependent on the books and not the the knowledge?’
Then, he reached into the water and pulled out the books one by one.
Rumi and his students were amazed to see that the books were completely dry as if no water had touched them. Rumi asked, ‘These books are dry! What is all this?’
‘This is something YOU don’t know!’ replied Tabrizi, and walked away silently.
12 Friday Aug 2016
Posted Shams-e-Tabriz
inLove is a travel.
All travelers whether they want or not are changed.
No one can travel into love and remain the same.
– Shams Tabrizi –
11 Thursday Aug 2016
Posted Shams-e-Tabriz
inWhatever happens to you, don’t fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for you that no one knows. You can’t see it yet but so many paradises are at the end of this path. Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want.
– Shams-e-Tabriz rahimahu Llah –
30 Saturday Apr 2016
Posted Shams-e-Tabriz
inEven after a thousand years,
these words will reach those
for whom they are intended.
— Shams-e-Tabriz rahimahu Llah –
31 Sunday Jan 2016
Posted Shams-e-Tabriz
inA life without love is of no account. Don’t ask yourself what kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, Eastern or Western.… Divisions only lead to more divisions. Love has no labels, no definitions. It is what it is, pure and simple. Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul of fire! The universe turns differently when fire loves water.
– Shams-e-Tabriz rahimahu Llah –
31 Sunday Jan 2016
Posted Shams-e-Tabriz
inWhen a true lover of God goes into a tavern, the tavern becomes his chamber of prayer, but when a wine bibber goes into the same chamber, it becomes his tavern. In everything we do, it is our hearts that make the difference, not our outer appearances. Sufis do not judge other people on how they look or who they are. When a Sufi stares at someone, he keeps both eyes closed and instead opens a third eye—the eye that sees the inner realm.
– Shams-e-Tabriz rahimahu Llah –
30 Saturday Jan 2016
Posted Shams-e-Tabriz
inWe were all created in His image, and yet we were each created different and unique. No two people are alike. No two hearts beat to the same rhythm. If God had wanted everyone to be the same, He would have made it so. Therefore, disrespecting differences and imposing your thoughts on others is tantamount to disrespecting God’s holy scheme.
– Shams-e-Tabriz rahimahu Llah –
29 Friday Jan 2016
Posted Shams-e-Tabriz
inWhile the parts change, the whole always remains the same. For every thief who departs this world, a new one is born. And every decent person who passes away is replaced by a new one. In this way not only does nothing remain the same but also nothing ever really changes. For every Sufi who dies, another is born somewhere.
– Shams-e-Tabriz rahimahu Llah –
29 Friday Jan 2016
Posted Shams-e-Tabriz
inWhile everyone in this world strives to get somewhere and become someone, only to leave it all behind after death, you aim for the supreme stage of nothingness. Live this life as light and empty as the number zero. We are no different from a pot. It is not the decorations outside but the emptiness inside that holds us straight. Just like that, it is not what we aspire to achieve but the consciousness of nothingness that keeps us going.
– Shams-e-Tabriz rahimahu Llah –
28 Thursday Jan 2016
Posted Shams-e-Tabriz
inThe true Sufi is such that even when he is unjustly accused, attacked, and condemned from all sides, he patiently endures, uttering not a single bad word about any of his critics. A Sufi never apportions blame. How can there be opponents or rivals or even “others” when there is no “self” in the first place? How can there be anyone to blame when there is only One?
– Shams-e-Tabriz rahimahu Llah –
28 Thursday Jan 2016
Posted Shams-e-Tabriz
inLife is a temporary loan, and this world is nothing but a sketchy imitation of Reality. Only children would mistake a toy for the real thing. And yet human beings either become infatuated with the toy or disrespectfully break it and throw it aside. In this life stay away from all kinds of extremities, for they will destroy your inner balance. Sufis do not go to extremes. A Sufi always remains mild and moderate.
– Shams-e-Tabriz rahimahu Llah –
27 Wednesday Jan 2016
Posted Shams-e-Tabriz
inThe human being has a unique place among God’s creation. “I breathed into him of My Spirit,” God says. Each and every one of us without exception is designed to be God’s delegate on earth. Ask yourself, just how often do you behave like a delegate, if you ever do so? Remember, it falls upon each of us to discover the divine spirit inside and live by it.
– Shams-e-Tabriz rahimahu Llah
26 Tuesday Jan 2016
Posted Shams-e-Tabriz
inDestiny doesn’t mean that your life has been strictly predetermined. Therefore, to leave everything to fate and to not actively contribute to the music of the universe is a sign of sheer ignorance. The music of the universe is all-pervading and it is composed on forty different levels. Your destiny is the level where you will play your tune. You might not change your instrument but how well to play is entirely in your hands.
– Shams-e-Tabriz rahimahu Llah –
26 Tuesday Jan 2016
Posted Shams-e-Tabriz
inThe universe is one being. Everything and everyone is interconnected through an invisible web of stories. Whether we are aware of it or not, we are all in a silent conversation. Do no harm. Practice compassion. And do not gossip behind anyone’s back—not even a seemingly innocent remark! The words that come out of our mouths do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us in due time. One man’s pain will hurt us all. One man’s joy will make everyone smile.
– Shams-e-Tabriz rahimahu Llah –
26 Tuesday Jan 2016
Posted Shams-e-Tabriz
inIt’s easy to love a perfect God, unblemished and infallible that He is. What is far more difficult is to love fellow human beings with all their imperfections and defects. Remember, one can only know what one is capable of loving. There is no wisdom without love. Unless we learn to love God’s creation, we can neither truly love nor truly know God.
– Shams-e-Tabriz rahimahu Llah –
25 Monday Jan 2016
Posted Shams-e-Tabriz
inThe Path to the Truth is a labor of the heart, not of the head. Make your heart your primary guide! Not your mind. Meet, challenge, and ultimately prevail over your nafs with your heart. Knowing your ego will lead you to the knowledge of God.
– Shams-e-Tabriz
24 Sunday Jan 2016
Posted Shams-e-Tabriz
inEach and every reader comprehends the Holy Qur’an on a different level in tandem with the depth of his understanding. There are four levels of insight. The first level is the outer meaning and it is the one that the majority of the people are content with. Next is the Batm—the inner level. Third, there is the inner of the inner. And the fourth level is so deep it cannot be put into words and is therefore bound to remain indescribable.
– Shams-e-Tabriz rahimahu Llah –
24 Sunday Jan 2016
Posted Shams-e-Tabriz
inHow we see God is a direct reflection of how we see ourselves. If God brings to mind mostly fear and blame, it means there is too much fear and blame welled inside us. If we see God as full of love and compassion, so are we.
– Shams-e-Tabriz rahimahu Llah –
23 Saturday Jan 2016
Posted Shams-e-Tabriz
inGod is a meticulous clockmaker. So precise is His order that everything on earth happens in its own time. Neither a minute late nor a minute early. And for everyone without exception, the clock works accurately. For each there is a time to love and a time to die.
– Shams-e-Tabriz rahimahu Llah –
23 Saturday Jan 2016
Posted Shams-e-Tabriz
inThis world is erected upon the principle of reciprocity. Neither a drop of kindness nor a speck of evil will remain unreciprocated. Fear not the plots, deceptions, or tricks of other people. If somebody is setting a trap, remember, so is God. He is the biggest plotter. Not even a leaf stirs outside God’s knowledge. Simply and fully believe in that. Whatever God does, He does beautifully.
– Shams-e-Tabriz rahimahu Llah –
23 Saturday Jan 2016
Posted Shams-e-Tabriz
inIn this world, it is not similarities or regularities that take us a step forward, but blunt opposites. And all the opposites in the universe are present within each and every one of us. Therefore the believer needs to meet the unbeliever residing within. And the nonbeliever should get to know the silent faithful in him. Until the day one reaches the stage of Insan-i Kâmil, the perfect human being, faith is a gradual process and one that necessitates its seeming opposite: disbelief.
– Shams-e-Tabriz rahimahu Llah –
23 Saturday Jan 2016
Posted Shams-e-Tabriz
inSubmission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power resides in submission—a power that comes from within. Those who submit to the divine essence of life will live in unperturbed tranquillity and peace even when the whole wide world goes through turbulence after turbulence.
– Shams-e-Tabriz rahimahu Llah –
23 Saturday Jan 2016
Posted Shams-e-Tabriz
inIf you want to strengthen your faith, you will need to soften inside. For your faith to be rock solid, your heart needs to be as soft as a feather. Through an illness, accident, loss, or fright, one way or another, we all are faced with incidents that teach us how to become less selfish and judgmental, and more compassionate and generous. Yet some of us learn the lesson and manage to become milder, while some others end up becoming even harsher than before. The only way to get closer to Truth is to expand your heart so that it will encompass all humanity and still have room for more Love.
– Shams-e-Tabriz rahimahu Llah –
23 Saturday Jan 2016
Posted Shams-e-Tabriz
inThe past is an interpretation. The future is an illusion. The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness. If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.
– Shams-e-Tabriz rahimahu Llah
23 Saturday Jan 2016
Posted Shams-e-Tabriz
inThis world is like a snowy mountain that echoes your voice. Whatever you speak, good or evil, will somehow come back to you. Therefore, if there is someone who harbors ill thoughts about you, saying similarly bad things about him will only make matters worse. You will be locked in a vicious circle of malevolent energy. Instead for forty days and nights say and think nice things about that person. Everything will be different at the end of forty days, because you will be different inside.
– Shams-e-Tabriz rahimahu Llah –
23 Saturday Jan 2016
Posted Shams-e-Tabriz
inHell is in the here and now. So is heaven. Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven, as they are both present inside this very moment. Every time we fall in love, we ascend to heaven. Every time we hate, envy, or fight someone, we tumble straight into the fires of hell.
– Shams-e-Tabriz rahimahu Llah –
23 Saturday Jan 2016
Posted Shams-e-Tabriz
inFret not where the road will take you. Instead concentrate on the first step. That’s the hardest part and that’s what you are responsible for. Once you take that step let everything do what it naturally does and the rest will follow. Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.
– Shams-e-Tabriz rahimahu Llah –
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