Junaid Iqbal

“Sufis (the name for the realised individual, not the learner or follower) are reunited with objective Reality and Unity.”
― Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers

“Knowledge gives nothing to a man until he gives everything to it.”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

“One should not pray if that prayer is vanity.”
― Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth: A Handbook

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring