"Having good manners means showing respect to those who are superior to you; loving friendship and agreement to those who are your equals; kindness and compassion to those who are lower than you; obedience and modesty to your mother and father; and compassion in the education of children. It means caring for your womenfolk; visiting and doing good deeds for relatives; loving your brothers and eliminating all and everything that may prevent you from loving them; offering good-hearted smiles and generosity toward all humankind; knowing the values of the Sufis and respecting their rights; not showing any need toward the rich; accepting the knowledge from men who know; humbly obeying men of wisdom without negation; and fleeing from the dogmatic ones, heretics, profiteers, and men who wish to enslave others." - Kitab al-Futuwwah of al Sulami (The Book of Sufi Chivalry)











