Naeem Shah Quotes

If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled. ~ Idries Shah

MAGHRIBI: Learning is in activity. Learning through words alone is minor activity. ~ Idries Shah

The important place held by Jesus among the world's six hundred million Moslems ... and the agreement of both religions about the necessity for surrender to God as the means of salvation, thus makes it comparatively easy for a Moslem to address himself to Christians: the sympathy and the history are already there. ~ Idries Shah

The moment we stop trying, we decline in success. ~ Shaizy - Shah Sheraz

We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory. ~ Idries Shah

Shah Jahan built Taj Mahal because he was a king, I wrote a beautiful book for my wife, though I was never an Author… ~ Ved Nishad

If you have no troubles – buy a goat. ~ Idries Shah

Time spent in India has a extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal. ~ Tahir Shah

Rust through washing never became white. ~ Idries Shah

Laziness isn't merely a physical phenomenon,about being a couch potato,stuffing your face with fries and watching cricket all day. It's a mental thing, too, and that's the part I have never aspired for. ~ Shah Rukh Khan

Teach honesty by all means - you do know what it is, don't you? ~ Idries Shah

Man (as he imagines himself to be), in general, is a possibility, not a fact. ~ Idries Shah

Love is the earth that holds our roots in place. Without it, there's nothing to keep us from falling over. ~ Saira Shah

When I think back on it, of course I got lucky and got great directors and good breaks but all that was the physical part. But what made me a star was that I could take a chance and not have anything to worry about in terms of losing. ~ Shah Rukh Khan

EDUCATION IS VITAL TO DISCERN BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING ~ Bulleh Shah

There's nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping. ~ Tahir Shah

In the realm of Greater Understanding, the workshop is dismantled after the work is finished. ~ Idries Shah

The basic theme of a hostile environment that seeks to destroy the ideology has many variations. Hitler fought his life-and-death struggle against a coalition (constructed by him alone) of 'Jewish, plutocratic and Bolshevik powers supported by the Vatican'; Ulrike Meinhof's indignation was directed against 'the German parliamentary coalition, the American government, the police, the state and university authorities, the bourgeois, the Shah of Iran, the multinational corporations, the capitalist system'; the opponents of nuclear energy imagine themselves up against a powerful, monolithic alliance of irresponsible corporations, the powers of high finance, and all the institutions that are slave to it: courts, authorities, universities, as well as other research institutions, and political parties. ~ Paul Watzlawick

Continuously, in commemoration of the Friend
We drank wine, even before the creation of the vine. ~ Idries Shah

People used to play with toys.
Now the toys play with them. ~ Idries Shah

A fruit basket would have been nice, but instead we found that a flyer had been slipped under the door. Dear Brainwashed Cowards, You are nothing but puppets of the corrupt Shah. We will teach you a lesson you will never forget. Death to the Shah. Death to you. My father crumpled the flyer and threw it away. "Let's find out where they're having the dinner buffet," he said. ~ Firoozeh Dumas

As I saw it, a little threatening was a good thing. It kept the men on their toes. ~ Tahir Shah

We are suggesting a new kind of opulence, of intelligent indulgence over blind gluttony. ~ Naeem Khan

But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'. ~ Idries Shah

When they have opened you up like a ripe fruit they devour your juices and then spit you out like the seed. ~ U.F. Shah

I'm too shy to do kissing scenes. ~ Shah Rukh Khan

A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands. ~ Idries Shah

If you long for the face of the Beloved,
Wash your heart from every face, image, and all. ~ Moulana Shah Maghsoud

Satisfaction is a treasure which does not decay.
Proverb ~ Idries Shah

To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves. ~ Idries Shah

There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage. ~ Tahir Shah

If we continue on the trend we're on, we can reduce extreme poverty by more than 60 percent-lifting more than 700 million people out of dollar-and-a-quarter a day poverty and back from the brink of hunger and malnutrition. But if we accelerate our progress from 3 percent annual reduction to over 6 percent and focus on key turnarounds in some difficult countries, we could get a 90 percent reduction. We could essentially eliminate dollar-and-a-quarter head count poverty. ~ Rajiv Shah

Who we are dies with us, what we do lives on. ~ Sabine Shah

You may be able to get the bone down your throat
But if it reaches your stomach it will tear your navel.
(Gulistan) ~ Idries Shah