Best Nafs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Seeker After Truth: A Handbook

“For every Pharoah there is a Moses.”

Psychology Ego Sufism Sufis Moses Nafs

Book:Caravan of Dreams

Source: Caravan of Dreams

“Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.”

Wisdom Belief Knowledge Evolution Ego Good Sufism Sufis Nafs

Book:Caravan of Dreams

Source: Caravan of Dreams

“The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.”

Ego Sufism Sufis Sufi Nafs

Book:The Commanding Self

Source: The Commanding Self

“To say "yes" to the Sufi way is to say "no" to imagined escapes.”

Sufism Sufis Sufi Conditioning Nafs

Book:Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“La mayor barrera para la comprensión es el pensamiento anhelante y seguir lo que a uno le gusta.”

Ego Sufis Sufismo Sufi Nafs

Book:The Commanding Self

Source: The Commanding Self

“Por cada Faraón hay un Moisés.”

Ego Sufis Sufismo Psicología Nafs Moisés

Book:Caravan of Dreams

Source: Caravan of Dreams

“Sentirse importante es un vicio, no una virtud, no importa lo escondido que esté como participación en algo noble.”

Ego Sufis Sufismo Psicología Nafs

Book:Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“Si no te reprochas a ti mismo”, dice Saadi, “no aceptarás el reproche ajeno.”

Ego Sufis Sufismo Personalidad Idries Shah Nafs Saadi

Book:The Sufis

Source: The Sufis

“During the period of her adolescence, her burgeoning womanhood, high school and throughout college, her awareness of the other sex had been an involuntary thing that crept up on her unasked for and unwanted. She would come into contact with these guys, or boys really, who she really didn’t even like all that much. She could discern the weakness in their characters in a heartbeat, see into the core of their insecurities with ease. Figure out what they were hungry for in life and discern their superficialities. And yet it was these guys who would make her palms moist with sweat when they approached, whose presence sucked the air out of her chest, whose off hand comments to her made her speechless and inarticulate. Not the top-of-the-class guy with his subtle opinions and depth of character, but the attractive, muscular idiot.”

Love Attraction Crush Adolescence Muslim Pride And Prejudice Elizabeth Bennet Nafs

Book:A Second Look

Source: A Second Look

“Your Nafs is just like a suckling child. If you do not take the pains to wean him, he will yearn for his mother's breast even when he's grown up. Therefore you should not try to satisfy your lust by indulging in sins. This will only increase the desire for more sins. The same is the case with the disease of gluttony. The more a person eats, the more his hunger increases.”

Ifs Should Trying Children Persons Wisdom Pain Mother Desire Sin Cases Disease Increase Hunger Lust Islamic Breasts Gluttony Nafs

Author:Busiri

“To blame others for our misfortunes is always a victory for the nafs.”

Wisdom Victory Blame Islamic Misfortunes Nafs

Author:Timothy Winter

“Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart.”

Heart Soul Evil Seeing Command Als Nafs

Author: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.”

Mind Heart Challenges Knowing Path Truth Is Ego Guides Primaries Labour Over You Knowledge Of God Nafs

Author:Shams Tabrizi

“One of the greatest tazkiya (purification) of the nafs (self) is to part with your money and to give it to people who deserve it.”

People Giving Self Deserve Purification Nafs

Author:Junaid Jamshed

“When one talks about being like a dead corpse in the hands of a spiritual teacher it means being able to surrender one's will, specially one's nafs al ammarah, that is a part of our soul which is again a Quranic term, which commands us to evil - we must surrender that. That's what it means. It doesn't make you become part of a cog of a machine.”

Mean Soul Hands Able Spiritual Evil Term Teacher Machines Surrender Command Als Corpses Spiritual Teachers Cogs Nafs

Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“Fight against your ego with the four swords of training: eat little, sleep little, speak little, and be patient when people harm you... Then the ego will walk the paths of obedience, like a fleeing horseman in the field of battle.”

People Littles Wisdom Fighting Speak Sleep Walks Path Four Fields Battle Ego Training Patient Harm Obedience Islamic Be Patient Fleeing Horsemen Nafs

Author:Yahya ibn Mu'adh al-Razi

“There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is the ocean of life, and the grave is the ocean of distress”

Self Wisdom Passion Sin Four Type Ocean Graves Lust Islamic Distress Nafs

Author:Umar

“Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.”

Soul Sometimes Helping Difficult My Own Help Me Nafs

Author:Al-Ghazali

“Change your 'Nafs', change the world.”

World Changing The World Nafs

Author:Nouman Ali Khan

“Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego.”

Enemy Worst Ego Hiding Worst Enemy Nafs

Author:Rumi

“My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.”

Desire Scream Nafs

Author:Yasmin Mogahed

“If you want an enemy, the soul (nafs) is sufficient. If you want advice, death is sufficient.”

Ifs Want Soul Enemy Advice Sufficient Nafs

Author:Said Nursi

“That Islam you see on TV does not represent me, I'm too busy waging jihad against myself, My own nafs are my enemy. I'm sorry that Muslim and Muslim lands do not represent Islam, Our religion is perfect, but we on the other hand.”

Doe Hands My Own Perfect Enemy Land Tvs Islam Sorry Busy I'm Sorry Too Busy Jihad Nafs

Author:Boonaa Mohammed