Knowledge

"As for the sciences we have taken upon ourselves to teach, they are the function of the exoterist scholar, but they have shunned them and we feared lest they become extinct."


"We have found knowledge not by means of words and phrases, nor by jostling with other men, but by a heart freed from the world, by weeping in the deep of the night, and constant vigilance for the Almighty."


Imam Abdullah bin Alawi al Haddad - Sufi Sage of Arabia