“Among the sufis, one attains purity not by ritual ablution, not by faith and worship, not by deed or merit, but by direct knowledge, experience, certainty, the drunkenness of ecstatic realization. Only this intoxication truly purifies the soul, because with this "wine" one becomes lost, and finds oneself, within the heart. One loses all separative delusions, the dirt of a muffled consciousness, and attains the One. This is to wander nude in the bazaar, like a naked Qalandar. But if the bazaar is shocked, then scandal belongs to the bazaar, not the dervish. Like a drunkard, the suf loses his reputation in the world because the world has lost its reputation with him. The petty bazaar stands accused of hypocrisy; the naked man stands before God.” MysticismSufismSufi QuotesSufi PoetryOccultismHakim BeySufism QuotesQalandarIslamic MysticismQalandar Quotes Book:Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy Source: Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy
“Divinity in Its Transcendence, the Absolute before any Self-manifestation, cannot be contemplated, for contemplation implies a subject and an object, and the Absolute is beyond all duality, all "place" and all knowing. It is the Mystery, the utterly inscrutable secret in the deepest part of Being, veiled behind all the inmost veils, yet somehow luring and teasing the lover. And the lover waits outside the door, ready to surrender his life at a sign.” PoetrySufismSufiSufi PoetryAttar Book:The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry Source: The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry
“The drop of rain knows who and what it is as long as it remains a drop. When it falls back into the sea, its origin, it can no longer know.” SufismSufiSufi PoetryIslamic PoetryAttar Book:The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry Source: The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry