Mulla Do Piaza Quotes

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Emotionalist:
A man or woman who thinks he has experienced the divine. ~ Idries Shah

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Patience: A support for the disappointed. ~ Idries Shah

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Flattery:
One of the most promising of businesses: always brisk. ~ Idries Shah

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Penitent: Someone who has been made incapable of enjoying himself. ~ Idries Shah

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Drugs: Source of the mystical experience of the ignorant. ~ Idries Shah

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Truthful man:
He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy. ~ Idries Shah

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A fool:
A man trying to be honest with the dishonest. ~ Idries Shah

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Worry: Something to make you unnecessarily ill. ~ Idries Shah

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Adherent:
Someone who will believe anything except what he should. ~ Idries Shah

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Supporter: Someone who will say anything. ~ Idries Shah

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Poverty: The result of marriage. ~ Idries Shah

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Intellectual: One who knows no craft. ~ Idries Shah

For such people, the ruling gods are progress, science, and development. They imagine that we know so much more about the world than those people of olden times, because "we" have science. Of course, they themselves do not have science, they have simply heard and believed that scientific knowledge is real knowledge. They know little about the goals and methods of science, and nothing about the Islamic Intellectual tradition. They are blind imitators in intellectual issues, that is, on the level where they should be striving for their own understanding. What is worse, this is a selective imitation, since they only accept the authority of the "scientists" and the "experts", not that of the great Muslim thinkers of the past. If Einstein said it, it must be true, but if Al-Ghazali or Mulla Sadra said it, then it can't be true, because it isn't scientific. ~ William C. Chittick

One of the signs of the lovers of God is the love for the knowledge relating to the shape of heavenly bodies, and the knowledge of the chain of causes descending from the exalted God, the method of dissecting the human body and its internal organs and his faculties and devices. Unless these kinds of knowledge, which are the scales and ladders extending from the servant to the Lord, are uncovered to him, how can he reach God's knowledge? And if this knowledge is not gained, how can love be achieved or even imagined? ~ Mulla Sadra

They asked for Plato's assistance. He told them: "You hated wisdom and ran away from geometry, therefore God has afflicted you a punishment, for wisdom and philosophical knowledge have a high rank with God." ... The plague was lifted and they ceased to defame the branches of theoretical knowledge. ~ Mulla Sadra

A great thinker does not necessarily have to discover a master idea but has to rediscover and to affirm a true but forgotten, ignored or misunderstood master idea and interpret it in all the diverse aspects of thought not previously done, in a powerful and consistent way, despite surrounding ignorance and opposition. This criterion we think would include all prophets and their true followers among the Muslim scholars. He is both a great and original thinker who brings new meanings and interpretations to old ideas, thereby providing both continuity and originality to the important intellectual and cultural problems of his time and through it, of mankind. Thus the brilliant interpretations of scholars and sages like al-Ghazali and Mulla Sadra then, and Iqbal and al-Attas now, deserve to be recognized and acknowledged as manifesting certain qualities of greatness and originality. ~ Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud

Saying of the Mulla Nasrudin. If I survive this life without dying, I'll be surprised. ~ Idries Shah