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#BEST QUOTES SHAMS TABRIZI FULL#

Blake and Zoroastrianism, by Mary Jackson.

Embodying Heaven: The Body in Blake’s Dante, by Silvia Riccardi.

The final part will be published shortly.įor Blake and Rumi by Sardar Muhammad, please click here. The moment you start looking for love, you start to change within and without.įor Part 2 of the 40 Rules of Love by Shams Tabrizi please click here. For Part 3 of the 40 Rules of Love by Shams Tabrizi please click here.

There is no seeker among those who search for love who has not matured on the way. If you travel within, you’ll travel the whole wide world and beyond.ġ0. No matter what your destination, just be sure to make every journey a journey within. East, west, south, or north makes little difference. The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full.ĩ. Impatience means to be shortsighted as to not be able to see the outcome. What does patience mean? It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn. It means to look at the end of a process. Patience does not mean to passively endure. A Sufi is thankful not only for what he has been given but also for all that he has been denied.Ĩ. Be thankful! It is easy to be thankful when all is well. Even when all doors remain closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighbourhood of despair. Remember only in another person’s heart can you truly see yourself and the presence of God within you.ħ.

But eventually it is the best to find a person who will be your mirror. Solitude is better for us, as it means being alone without feeling lonely. When you are lonely, it is easy to delude yourself into believing that you are on the right path. Loneliness and solitude are two different things. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence.Ħ. When you step into the zone of love, language, as we know it becomes obsolete. Most of the problems of the world stem from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstanding. Intellect is always cautious and advises, ‘Beware too much ecstasy’, whereas love says, ‘Oh, never mind! Take the plunge!’ Intellect does not easily break down, whereas love can effortlessly reduce itself to rubble. Intellect ties people in knots and risks nothing, but love dissolves all tangles and risks everything. Intellect and love are made of different materials. 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.Ĥ. You can study God through everything and everyone in the universe, because God is not confined in a mosque, synagogue or church. Knowing your false ego will lead you to the knowledge of God.ģ. Meet, challenge and ultimately prevail over your nafs (false ego self, psyche, soul) with your heart. Make your heart your primary guide! Not your mind. The path to the Truth is a labour of the heart, not of the head.

#BEST QUOTES SHAMS TABRIZI FULL#

If we see God as full of love and compassion, so are we.Ģ. If God brings to mind mostly fear and blame, it means there is too much fear and blame welled inside us.

How we see God is a direct reflection of how we see ourselves we don’t see th ings as they are, we see them as we are.

Like life, and love, learning is not a race to the finish, but a voyage to the start. knowledge that cannot be understood by the learned.) Shams’ forty observations about the nature of love and God, the first ten of which are illustrated here, can be read together (fine but a bit left brain, a bit “learned” as Shams might say) or discretely, each a starting-point for reflection (more right brain, letting the mind wander laterally and make connections). Rumi then asked Shams, “What is this?” To which Shams replied, “Mowlana, this is what you cannot understand” (i.e. Rumi hastily rescued the books and to his surprise they were all dry. knowledge that cannot be understood by the unlearned.) On hearing this, Shams threw the stack of books into a nearby pool of water. Shams Tabriz, passing by, asked him, “What are you doing?” Rumi scoffingly replied, “Something you cannot understand” (i.e. One day, according to legend, Rumi was reading next to a large stack of books. It is in this time, that the concept of “whirling dervishes” originated. He was the spiritual teacher and advisor of Rumi, and indeed it’s often said that Rumi was a professor who Shams transformed into a mystic, a lover, and a poet. There are many legends describing their meeting in Konya: Rumi was taught by Shams in seclusion for 40 days, and the period after this is described as Rumi’s ‘mysticism’, where sufis danced, played music (rabab), and drank wine. Shams of Tabriz was a Persian Sufi and roaming dervish who lived at the end of the twelfth/ early thirteenth century.