Naat-o-Manqabat

jalva-e-maa'buud hai sardaar beg
haasil-e-masjuud hai sardaar beg

Imdad Ali Ulvi

Sufi Quotes

Ecstasy and music were part of his mystical life. For him love is to rend the veils and unveil the secrets.

Ecstasy and music were part of his mystical life. For him love is to rend the veils and unveil the secrets.

Abul Hasan Hankari

Sufi Quotes

Don't beg of God except God.

Don't beg of God except God.

Jama'at Ali Shah

Sufi Quotes

God having predestined our satisfaction and dissatisfaction does not alter His predestination; therefore, our satisfaction with His decrees is a part of our pleasure.

God having predestined our satisfaction and dissatisfaction does not alter His predestination; therefore, our satisfaction with His decrees is a part of our pleasure.

Data Sahib

Sufi Quotes

If you do not want to be held in disgrace, do not beg for anything.

If you do not want to be held in disgrace, do not beg for anything.

Baba Farid

Sufi Quotes

Man has no part in repentance, because repentance is from God to Man, not from Man to God.

Man has no part in repentance, because repentance is from God to Man, not from Man to God.

Abu Hafs Haddaad

Ghazal

kamaal-e-aashiqii kaa hai tuu hii mere dilaa haafiz
jamaal-e-laa-yazaalii kii hai merii hai vafaa haafiz

Mardan Safi

Sufi Quotes

How can the laws of nature be ruptured for you so that miracles result, while you, for your part, have yet to rupture your bad habits.

How can the laws of nature be ruptured for you so that miracles result, while you, for your part, have yet to rupture your bad habits.

Ibn-e-Ataullah Sikandari

Sufi Quotes

The Lower self is a part of the external or the unreal world and thus the saint guards his inner self.

The Lower self is a part of the external or the unreal world and thus the saint guards his inner self.

Abu Bakr Shibli

Naat-o-Manqabat

firdaus me.n un ke diivaane sirf is liye paa.e jaate hai.n
rauze ke hasii.n dilkash naqshe jannat me.n dikhaa.e jaate hai.n

Shaida Warsi

Sufi Quotes

That which is in your fate you shall receive in spite of all obstacles and that which is not in your destiny, by no effort on your part you can secure it. So, what is there against which you have to practice piety (Zuhd).

That which is in your fate you shall receive in spite of all obstacles and that which is not in your destiny, by no effort on your part you can secure it. So, what is there against which you have to practice piety (Zuhd).

Abu Bakr Shibli

Sufi Quotes

Human qualities are Divine qualities in a manifested form. They relate to the Divine Attributes like a part to the whole. Union consists in forsaking all else and being wholly engrossed in the contemplation of the one Unique Being.

Human qualities are Divine qualities in a manifested form. They relate to the Divine Attributes like a part to the whole. Union consists in forsaking all else and being wholly engrossed in the contemplation of the one Unique Being.

Jami

Persian Sufi Poetry

raftam ba-baaG taa ki ba-chiinam sahar gule
aamad ba-gosh naagaham aavaaz-e-bulbule

Hafiz

Sufi Quotes

Every particle of the dust has universal unity. The individual is only in the same way a part of the Infinite Being who fills in the universe, a particle whish has been momentarily detached there from only to return thither.

Every particle of the dust has universal unity. The individual is only in the same way a part of the Infinite Being who fills in the universe, a particle whish has been momentarily detached there from only to return thither.

Mulla Shah Badakhshi

Sufi Quotes

Precisely the part of your world that you've apportioned for Allah, is what Allah has set out for you in His world.

Precisely the part of your world that you've apportioned for Allah, is what Allah has set out for you in His world.

Wasif Ali Wasif

Sufi Quotes

Always fear God and don’t be afraid of anyone else. Commit all of your needs to Allah and beg everything of Him and trust in Him. Be steadfast on the Unity of God as there is consensus on this.

Always fear God and don’t be afraid of anyone else. Commit all of your needs to Allah and beg everything of Him and trust in Him. Be steadfast on the Unity of God as there is consensus on this.

Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani

sher

KHudaa-haafiz hai bahr-e-ishq me.n is dil kii kashtii kaa
ki hai chiin-e-jabiin-e-yaar se mauj-e-digar paidaa

Shah Naseer

Sufi Quotes

Concentration on the implications of drawing and discharging breath is a part of the seer’s (Arif’s) worship.

Concentration on the implications of drawing and discharging breath is a part of the seer’s (Arif’s) worship.

Khwaja Gharib Nawaz