black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Shams Tabrizi

The path to the Truth is a labour 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 TABRIZI

Challenge God Guide Heart Knowledge Mindset Path True Work
If the human being is a proud and honorable creature, he shouldn’t forget to act that way, even if he falls, even if the whole world is against him, even if he ends as a slave.
SHAMS TABRIZI

Act Creature Fall Forget Himself Human Proud Slave World
Remove all the walls and curtains so you can get closer and purely love. Have principles but do not use them to exclude or to judge the others. Stay far from idols, specially from those you made from your own principles. Have a powerful faith, but do not play the powerful.
SHAMS TABRIZI

Faith Judgement Love Play Powerful Principle Pure
It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come.
SHAMS TABRIZI

Destination Journey Leadership Path Thinking Try Way
We can only learn and advance with contradictions. The faithful inside should meet the doubtful. The doubtful should meet the faithful. Human slowly advances and becomes mature when he accepts his contradictions.
SHAMS TABRIZI

Acceptance Doubt Faith Human Learning
The salat can be made up for, but there is no making up for false show or outward worship without presence.
SHAMS TABRIZI

Make Up Presence Worship
The life we live is just a colourful and deposit toy. Some of us take it so seriously and fight and cry for it. Some of us break and throw it. Either we give extreme importance, either not enough. Better to stay far from extremes.
SHAMS TABRIZI

Better Break Cry Fight Importance Life Live Serious Stay Toy
You can study God through everything and everyone in the universe, because God is not confined in a mosque, synagogue or church. But if you are still in need of knowing where exactly His abode is, there is only one place to look for Him: in the heart of a true lover.
SHAMS TABRIZI

God Love Need Philosophy Place Religious Spiritual Study True
Don’t search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in hell.
SHAMS TABRIZI

Expectation Fight Future Hate Heaven Hell Love Philosophy Present Search
The words we use for the Creator are a reflect of ourselves. If we think of God as fear and shame, we are scared and have something to be ashamed of … But if we see love, compassion and kindness, it is because we possess these qualities.
SHAMS TABRIZI

Compassionate Creation Fear God Kindness Love Ourselves Reflection Scare Shame Thinking Word
Wherever you go, east, west, north or south, think of it as a journey into yourself! The one who travels into itself travels the world.
SHAMS TABRIZI

Discover Oneself Philosophy Thinking Travel World
The past is a fog on our minds. The future? A complete dream. We can’t neither guess the future, neither change the past.
SHAMS TABRIZI

Change Deep Dream Future Mindset Past
You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.
SHAMS TABRIZI

Happiness Hypocrisy Live People Stay Yourself
To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart.
SHAMS TABRIZI

Beautiful Heart Need Right Soft Truth
For anew Self to be born, hardship is necessary. Just as clay needs to go through intense heat to become strong, Love can only be perfected in pain.
SHAMS TABRIZI

Born Love Necessary Need Pain Perfection Philosophy Strong
When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness. Human should be like a pot. As the pot is hold by its emptiness inside, human is hold by the awareness of his nothingness.
SHAMS TABRIZI

Empty Hold Human Philosophy Try

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Shams Tabrizi Quotes