Sufi Proverb

har kah tarsiid mard har kah natadrasiid burd

har kah tarsiid mard har kah natadrasiid burd

Oral Tradition

Persian Kalam

dil burd az man diiroz shaame
fitna-taraaze mahshar KHiraame

Jigar Moradabadi

Persian Kalam

na paike ki az maa payaamash burd
na baade ki roze salaamash burd

Jami

Persian Kalam

dil burd ze-man chashm-e-siyaahe ba-nigaahe
taaraaj-o-tabah kard sipaahe ba-nigaahe

Ghulam Hasan Bithvi

Rubai

mai-KHuur ki za tuu qillat-o-kasrat ba-burd
vandesha-e-hashtaad-o-do millat ba-burd

Omar Khayyam

Persian Kalam

aa.n ki dil burd ze-man Gamza-e-jaaduu-e-tuu buud
vaa.n ki jaa.n raa ba-tan aavurd hama buu-e-tuu buud

Amir Hasan Ala Sijzi

Persian Kalam

aa.n ki az 'ahmad'-e-miskii.n dil-o-dii.n Gaarat burd
shoKHii-e-Gamza-e-aa.n turra-e-hinduu-e-tuu buud

Ahmad Shahjahanpuri

Persian Kalam

har-lahza ba-shakle but-e-'ayyaar bar aamad dil burd-o-nihaa.n shud
har-dam ba-libaas-e-digar aa.n yaar bar aamad gah pii-o-javaa.n shud

Shams Mashriqi

Sufi Quotes

Fear and hope are like the two wings of a bird. When they are equal, the bird is balanced, and his flight is perfect. When one of them is lacking, this makes the bird lose its ability to fly. When both fear and hope are missing, the bird plummets to its death.

Fear and hope are like the two wings of a bird. When they are equal, the bird is balanced, and his flight is perfect. When one of them is lacking, this makes the bird lose its ability to fly. When both fear and hope are missing, the bird plummets to its death.

Abu Ali Ahmad Rudbari

Sufi Quotes

Bread earned through permitted means provides greater spiritual enlightenment than livelihood obtained through doubtful means.

Bread earned through permitted means provides greater spiritual enlightenment than livelihood obtained through doubtful means.

Nizamuddin Auliya

Sufi Proverb

KHuda kashti aa.njaa keh KHawaahad barad. wa garnaa KHudaa jaama bar tan barad

KHuda kashti aa.njaa keh KHawaahad barad. wa garnaa KHudaa jaama bar tan barad

Oral Tradition

Persian Sufi Poetry

ai burda-dil tuu qasd-e-jaa.n ma-kun
vaa.n che man kardam tu jaanaa.n aa.n ma-kun

Rumi

Rubai

miinaa-e-falak ki sa.ng mii-baarad zuu
dar parda-e-sulh ja.ng mii-baarad zuu

Sarmad Kashani

Persian Kalam

jaa.n ze tan burdii-o-dar jaanii hanuuz
dard-haa daadii-o-darmaanii hanuuz

Amir Khusrau

Sufi Quotes

Though you build lofty palace as high as the heavens, yet in the end you will come to be buried under the earth.

Though you build lofty palace as high as the heavens, yet in the end you will come to be buried under the earth.

Fariduddin Attar

Sufi Proverb

sar-e-gurg bayad ham avval buriid- na chuu.n gosfandaan-e-mardum dariid

The wolf should be beheaded at the very outset, not after it has devoured the whole flock.

Oral Tradition

Sufi Quotes

Hope and fear are like the two wings of a bird, when it is flying straight to its destination; if one wing fails its flight fails and if both fails, it dies.

Hope and fear are like the two wings of a bird, when it is flying straight to its destination; if one wing fails its flight fails and if both fails, it dies.

Abul Qasim Qushairi

Persian Sufi Poetry

abr mii-baarad va man mii-shavam az yaar judaa
chuu.n kunam dil ba-chunii.n roz ze-dildaar judaa

Amir Khusrau

Sufi Quotes

When one prays he should think of His mercy alone. He should neither brood over his penitences nor over his past sins.

When one prays he should think of His mercy alone. He should neither brood over his penitences nor over his past sins.

Nizamuddin Auliya

Persian Sufi Poetry

man-o-salaah-o-salaamat kas ii.n gumaa.n na-barad
ki kas ba-rind-e-KHaraabat zan-e-aan na-barad

Hafiz