Shams Tabrizi Born : 1185 Died : 1248 Browse All Authors Top 60 quotes by Shams Tabrizi The real dirt is not outside, but inside, in our hearts. We can wash all stains with water. The only one we can't remove is the grudge and the bad intentions sticking to our hearts. Shams Tabrizi real heart water There may be one fault in a man that conceals a thousand qualities, or one excellence that conceals a thousand faults. The little indicates much. Shams Tabrizi quality excellence men Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want. Shams Tabrizi grateful easy want 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 faithful contradiction mature 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 loving-god perfection easy God is busy with the completion of your work, both outwardly and inwardly. He is fully occupied with you. Every human being is a work in progress that is slowly but inexplicably moving toward perfection. We are each an unfinished work of art both waiting and striving to be completed. God deals with each of us separately because humanity is a fine art of skilled penmanship where every single dot is equally important for the entire picture. Shams Tabrizi unfinished-work art moving 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 pay attention country 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 compassion kindness thinking The life we live is just a colourful and deposit toy. Shams Tabrizi toys fighting giving While the parts change, the whole always remains the same. For every thief who departs this world, a new one is born. And every decent person who passes away is replaced by a new one. In this way not only does nothing remain the same but also nothing ever really changes. Shams Tabrizi thieves passing-away doe If you are insulted, if you are accused, if they gossip about you, don't say anything bad. Don't be the one who sees the shame, be the one who corrects it. Shams Tabrizi gossip shame say-anything If a person claims that he really loves someone, evidence is asked from him. And that evidence is the giving away of possessions, the granting of favors. Just as when Mevlana claimed that he loved me, when I came he granted me thousands of favors and protected me. I regard these all as a grace from God. Shams Tabrizi favors grace giving The salat can be made up for, but there is no making up for false show or outward worship without presence. Shams Tabrizi worship shows made Whoever lives as he sees fit will not die as he sees fit. Shams Tabrizi fit dies When you oppose the shaykh, it's like the slave who kills himself over a quarrel with his master. 'Hey, why are you killing yourself over a quarrel?' He says, 'So my master will suffer loss.' Shams Tabrizi hey suffering loss 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 abraham fire world 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 proud world fall '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 wrath giving mean Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart. Shams Tabrizi soul evil heart 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 good-man different men