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Sufi Poetry
Attar
Hafiz
Jami
Rumi
Saadi
Sanai
Yunus Emry
Shabistari
Ansari
Rabi'a
Abil Kheir
Sultan Bahu
Ibn 'Arabi
Baba Kuhi
Mansur al-Hallaj
Amir Khusrau
Moinuddin Hasan Chishti
Hazret-i Uftade
Attar of Nishapur (1145 - 1221 ce) saint and mystic,
one of the most voluminous authors in Persian literature
on religious topics. His best-known work, Conference of
the Birds, is an elaborate allegory of the soul's quest for
reunion with God
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The sun
Won a beauty contest and became a jewel
Set upon God‟s right hand.
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"Hafiz,
Don't just sit there on the moon tonight
Doing nothing -
A harbinger of joy,
The harbinger of
Light.
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Come,
let's scatter roses and pour wine in the glass;
we'll shatter heaven's roof and lay a new foundation.
If sorrow raises armies to shed the blood of lovers,
I'll join with the wine bearer so we can overthrow them.
With a sweet string at hand, play a sweet song, my
friend,
so we can clap and sing a song and lose our heads in
dancing.
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Who is man?
The reflection of the Eternal Light.
Know that this reflection and this wave are that very
Light and Sea.
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You've no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring
You.
Nothing seemed right.
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Oh! Supreme Lover!
Let me leave aside my worries.
The flowers are blooming
with the exultation of your Spirit.
By Allah!
I long to escape the prison of my ego
and lose myself
in the mountains and the desert.
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Inside this new love, die.
Your way begins on the other side.
Become the sky.
Take an axe to the prison wall.
Escape.
Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.
Do it now.
You're covered with a thick cloud.
Slide out the side. Die,
and be quiet. Quiteness is the surest sign
that you've died.
Your old life was a frantic running
from silence.
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I wonder
from these thousand of "me's",
which one am I?
Listen to my cry, do not drown my voice
I am completely filled with the thought of you.
Don't lay broken glass on my path
I will crush it into dust.
I am nothing, just a mirror in the palm of your hand,
reflecting your kindness, your sadness, your anger.
If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower
I will pitch my tent in your shadow.
Only your presence revives my withered heart.
You are the candle that lights the whole world
and I am an empty vessel for your light.
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Happy the moment when we are seated in the Palace,
thou and I,
With two forms and with two figures but with one soul,
thou and I.
The colours of the grove and the voice of the birds will
bestow immortality
At the time when we come into the garden, thou and I.
The stars of heaven will come to gaze upon us;
We shall show them the Moon itself, thou and I.
Thou and I, individuals no more, shall be mingled in
ecstasy,
Joyful and secure from foolish babble, thou and I.
All the bright-plumed birds of heaven will devour their
hearts with envy
In the place where we shall laugh in such a fashion, thou
and I.
This is the greatest wonder, that thou and I, sitting here
in the same nook,
Are at this moment both in „Iraq and Khorasan, thou and
I.
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Sanai
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'The Puzzle'
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I am before, I am after
The soul for all souls all the way.
I'm the one with a helping hand
Ready for those gone wild, astray.
Yunus Emre
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Your love has wrested me away from me,
You're the one I need, you're the one I crave.
Day and night I burn, gripped by agony,
You're the one I need, you're the one I crave.
Yunus Emre
Sa'd al-din Mahmud Shabistari(1288 - 1340 ce) is one
of the most celebrated authors of Persian Sufism.
Because of his gift for expressing the Sufi mystical vision
with extraordinary clarity, his Gulshan-i Raz (Secret Rose
Garden) rapidly became one of the most popular works of
Persian Sufi poetry.
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'One Light'
O God
You know why I am happy:
It is because I seek Your company,
not through my own (efforts).
O God,
You decided and I did not.
I found the Friend beside me
when I woke up!
Sheikh Ansari - Kashf al_Asrar, Vol. 5, p. 407 -
'Munajat - The Intimate Invocations' - A.G. Farhadi
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O God,
You are the aim of the call of the sincere,
You enlighten the souls of the friends, (and)
You are the comfort of the hearts of the travellers-
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because You are present in the very soul.
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Rabia was once asked, "How did you attain that which
you have attained?"
"By often praying, 'I take refuge in You, O God, from
everything that distracts me from You, and from every
obstacle that prevents me from reaching You.'"
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Rabia al-Adawiyya
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I have made You the Companion of my heart.
But my body is available to those who desire its
company,
And my body is friendly toward its guest,
But the Beloved of my heart is the guest of my soul.
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O Lord,
If tomorrow on Judgment Day
You send me to Hell,
I will tell such a secret
That Hell will race from me
Until it is a thousand years away.
O Lord,
Whatever share of this world
You could give to me,
Give it to Your enemies;
Whatever share of the next world
You want to give to me,
Give it to Your friends.
You are enough for me.
O Lord,
If I worship You
From fear of Hell, burn me in Hell.
O Lord,
If I worship You
From hope of Paradise, bar me from its gates.
Shaikh Abu Saeed Abil Kheir (Abu Sa'id ibn Ab'il Khair
) (967 - 1049 ce) referring to himself as "nobody, son of
nobody" he expressed the reality that his life had
disappeared in the heart of God. This revered Persian
Sufi mystic from Khorasan preceded the great poet
Jalaluddin Rumi by over two hundred years on the same
path of annihilation in Love.
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Be humble.
Only fools take pride in their station here, trapped in
a cage of dust, moisture, heat and air.
No need to complain of calamities,
this illusion of a life lasts but a moment.
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Drink from this heart now,
for all this loving it contains.
When you look for it again,
it will be dancing in the wind.
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It is up to us
to find out what they mean.
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Were it not for
the excess of your talking
and the turmoil in your hearts,
you would see what I see
and hear what I hear!
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I am He whom I love,
and He whom I love is I:
We are two spirits
dwelling in one body.
If thou seest me,
thou seest Him,
And if thou seest Him,
thou seest us both.
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Love came and spread like blood in my veins and the skin
of me,
It filled me with the Friend and completely emptied me.
The Friend has taken over all parts of my existence,
Only my name remains, as all is He.
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