Sufi Proverb

ushtur keh kaah mii KHvaahad gardan daraaz mii kunad

ushtur keh kaah mii KHvaahad gardan daraaz mii kunad

Oral Tradition

Ghazal

is tarah gardan pe KHanjar ko lagaate jaa.iye
KHuu.n se aaluuda na ho daaman bachaate jaa.iye

Raqim Dehlvi

Rubai

yaarab zad-o-kaun be-niyaazam gardaan
va ze-afsar faqr sarfaraazam gardaan

Jami

sher

jis kii gardan me.n hai phandaa vahii insaan ba.Daa
suuliyo.n se yahaa.n paimaa.ish-e-qad hotii hai

Muzaffar Warsi

Sufi Proverb

har ki gardan badaa'vaa afraazad. dushman az har taraf badoo taazad

He who lifts his head high pretentiously will he attacked by adversaries from all sides.

Oral Tradition

Persian Sufi Poetry

ba-gardaa.n saaqiyaa aa.n jaam-e-diigar
ba-deh jaam-e-maraa aaraam-e-diigar

Rumi

Persian Sufi Poetry

man az kujaa pand az kujaa baada ba-gardaa.n saaqiyaa
ai jaam-e-jaa.n afzaa-e-raa bar zer-e-jaan-e-saaqiyaa

Rumi

Sufi Quotes

Garden of mystic lovers

I, you, he, she, and we. In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.

Rumi

Sufi Literature

The HADIQAT-UL-HAQIQAT (The enclosed garden of the truth)

IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MERCIFUL, THE COMPASSIONATE.
O Thou who nurturest the mind, who adornest the body, O Thou who givest wisdom, who showest mercy on the foolish, Creator and Sustainer of earth and time, Guardian and Defender of

Hakim Sanai

Sufi Quotes

We the saints don’t require happiness of the garden; (worldly merriments) the scar of our breast in not less than a garden.

We the saints don’t require happiness of the garden; (worldly merriments) the scar of our breast in not less than a garden.

Noor Muhammad Maharvi

Allusion

Bagh-e-Iram ya Shaddad (The gharden of Iram or Shaddad)

Baagh-e-Iram or Gulzaar-e-Iram (The Garden of Iram), also known as the Bahisht-e-Iram (Paradise of Iram), or

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Sufi Quotes

Heart is a garden, it is either fertilized or destroyed by the divine rain, the rain of His grace or the rain of His wrath. The first one is revealed by thunders of majesty in the hearts of those who repent, by the lightning of desire in the hearts of the ascetics, by the showers of generosity in the hearts of the lovers, and by the breeze of appeasement in the hearts of the Gnostics.

Heart is a garden, it is either fertilized or destroyed by the divine rain, the rain of His grace or the rain of His wrath. The first one is revealed by thunders of majesty in the hearts of those who repent, by the lightning of desire in the hearts of the ascetics, by the showers of generosity in the hearts of the lovers and by the breeze of appeasement in the hearts of the Gnostics.

Abul Hasan Hankari

Sufi Quotes

The saint has no fear, because fear is the expectation either of some future calamity or of the eventual loss of some object of desires, whereas, the saint is the son of his time: he has no future that he should fear anything; and as he has no fear so he has no hope, since hope is the expectation either of gaining an object of desire or of being relieved of a misfortune, and this belongs to the future; nor does he grieve, because grief arises from the rigor of time, and how should he feel grief who is in the radiance of satisfaction (Rida) and the garden of concord (Muwafaqat).

The saint has no fear, because fear is the expectation either of some future calamity or

Junaid Baghdadi

Persian Kalam

mah-e-man dosh bar garduu.n bar-aamad
ba-chandii.n shakl-e-guunaa-guu.n bar-aamad

Rumi

Sufi Articles

In conversation with the Guardian saint of Delhi, and the mystic of Sindh Farid Ayaz.

I had met Farid Ayaz Sahab in 2012, while gatecrashing in a private concert hosted by

Arun Prakash Ray

Persian Sufi Poetry

mah-e-man dosh bar garduu.n bar aamad
ba-chandii.n shakl-e-guunaa-guu.n bar aamad

Rumi

Kalaam

dekh kar kaalii ghaTaa garduu.n pe yuu.n chhaa.ii hu.ii
phir rahii hai tauba har botal pe lalchaa.ii hu.ii

Asghar Nizami

sher

pusht-e-paa maare na kiyuu.n himmat-e-garduu.n 'rind'
shal nahii.n fazl-e-KHudaa se abhii baazuu apnaa

Rind Lakhnavi

Ghazal

vasl kii shab ra.ng-e-garduu.n nau.-e-diigar ho gayaa
shaam se yaar aur mai.n jaame se baahar ho gayaa

Khwaja Haidar Ali Aatish

Naat-o-Manqabat

saamne us ke hai KHam gardan-e-ayyaam-o-duhuur
gardan-e-sarvar-e-’aalam kaa hai rutba aisaa

Naseer Seraji