The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition.

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

In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.

Saying of the Prophet
Understanding
Speak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding.

Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.

Saying of the Prophet. The Bequest: I have nothing to leave you except my family.