black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart.

Shams Tabrizi

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
If you expect respect from others, show it first to yourself. You can’t expect from others what you don’t give to yourself.
SHAMS TABRIZI

Expectation Respect Self Love Yourself
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].
SHAMS TABRIZI

Burn Company Fire Friendship World
Whoever lives as he sees fit will not die as he sees fit.
SHAMS TABRIZI

Death Himself Live See
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
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
To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart.
SHAMS TABRIZI

Beautiful Heart Need Right Soft Truth
This world is like a mountain. Your echo depends on you. If you scream good things, the world will give it back. If you scream bad things, the world will give it back. Even if someone says badly about you, speak well about him. Change your heart to change the world.
SHAMS TABRIZI

Attraction Bad Change Goodness Heart Philosophy Spiritual World Yourself
It is easy to love perfection. The difficulty consists in loving the human with his good and bad. We mostly know as much as we love. Only loving God but not its creatures, you can never really know, neither really love.
SHAMS TABRIZI

Easy God Goodness Love Perfection
If parts are always changing, the whole remains the same. A dead good man is replaced by a good man, a dead bad man is replaced by a bad man. While the whole remains the same, every day is different.
SHAMS TABRIZI

Change Day Death Different Goodness Man
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
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
Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.
SHAMS TABRIZI

Day Deep Future Love Moon Need Night Patience Philosophy Rose See Time Wait
When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness.
SHAMS TABRIZI

Deep Empty Philosophy Range Try
The whole universe is sum up in the Human Being. Devil is not a monster waiting to trap us, He is a voice inside. Look for Your Devil in Yourself, not in the Others. Don’t forget that the one who knows his Devil, knows his God.
SHAMS TABRIZI

Devil Forget God Human Philosophy Spiritual Voice Wait
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
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
You learn by reading but understand by LOVE.
SHAMS TABRIZI

Learning Love Understand Yourself
Most of conflicts and tensions are due to language. Don’t pay so much attention to the words. In love’s country, language doesn’t have its place. Love’s mute.
SHAMS TABRIZI

Attention Country Language Mistake Mute Place Word
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
Surrendering is not a weakness. At the contrary it is strength. The surrender stops living in boiling water and starts living in a secure place.
SHAMS TABRIZI

Live Place Security Stop Strength Surrender Water Weakness
Be sure that someday you’ll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.
SHAMS TABRIZI

Gratitude Praise Prayer Thankful
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
You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.
SHAMS TABRIZI

Happiness Hypocrisy Live People Stay Yourself
Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart.
SHAMS TABRIZI

Beautiful Evil Kill Life Soul
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
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

To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Shams Tabrizi Quotes