Persian Sufi Poetry

chunaa.n kaz quuvvat-e-unsur darii.n zaa
mavaaliid-e-seh-gaana gasht paidaa

Mahmood Shabistari

Rubai

ahvaal ki az jaur-e-falak gasht tabaah
ii.n bud ki az shaah-o-gadaa KHvaast panaah

Sarmad Kashani

Persian Sufi Poetry

dar kisvat-e-bashar chuu padiidaar gasht yaar
ganje ki buud nihaa.n ba-jahaa.n gasht aashkaar

Auhadi

Persian Sufi Poetry

za naam-e-Gaus-e-aa'zam gasht aasaa.n jumla mushkil-haa
rafiiqaanam biyaa saa.iid-o-ba-kushaa.iid mahmil-haa

Shah Abdul Qadir Badayuni

Persian Sufi Poetry

aalam tamaam pur ze-shahiidaan-e-KHufta-gasht
turk-e-maraa KHada.ng-e-balaa dar kamaa.n hunuuz

Amir Khusrau

Persian Kalam

a.alam tamaam pur ze-shahiidaan-e-fitna-gasht
turk-e-maraa KHada.ng-e-balaa dar kamaa.n hanuuz

Amir Khusrau

Persian Sufi Poetry

shagufta shud gul-e-hamraa-o-gasht bulbul mast
salaa-e-sar-KHush ai sufiyaan-e-baada-parast

Hafiz

Kalaam

bahr-e-gul-gasht mire ghar me.n jo yaar aa jaa.e
baaG-e-ummiid me.n ik taaza bahaar aa jaa.e

Sheerin Lakhnavi

sher

kab dimaaG itnaa ki kiije jaa ke gul-gasht-e-chaman
aur hii gulzaar apne dil ke hai gulshan ke biich

Mir Muhammad Bedar

Kalaam

KHayaal aayaa jo us mah-ruu ko gul-gasht-e-kHiyaabaa.n kaa
nazar kuchh aur hii aane lagaa 'aalam-e-gulistaa.n kaa

Syed Ali Kaithli

Sufi Proverb

ba-tamanna.e gosht murdan beh keh taqaaza-e -zisht-e-qasaabaa.n

Better die for want of meat than hear the exactions of the butcher.

Oral Tradition

Persian Kalam

taa mast-o-aashiq-e-ruKH-e-jaanaana gashta-am
baa dard-e-ishq ham-dam-o-ham-KHaana gashta-am

Unknown

Persian Sufi Poetry

KHasta-e-hijr gashta-am baa tuu visaalam aarzuust
tiira shuda ast chashm-e-man nuur-e-jamaalam aarzuust

Hussain Bin Mansoor Hallaj

Sufi Proverb

jaa.e keh gosht niist chuGaundur pahalwaan ast

jaa.e keh gosht niist chuGaundur pahalwaan ast

Oral Tradition

Persian Kalam

taa judaa gashta-e-zemaa sanamaa
ba-ka-til-aino fii havaa-ka damaa

Saadi Shirazi

Kalaam

bar-gashta-e-yazdaa.n se kuchh bhuul hu.ii hai
bhaTke hue insaa.n se kuchh bhuul hu.ii hai

Saghar Siddiqui

Persian Sufi Poetry

chuu az ta.adiil gasht arakaa.n mu.aafiq
ze-husnash nafas goyaa gasht aashiq

Mahmood Shabistari

Mukhammas

shukr-e-haq aknuu.n qafas aabaad gasht
shaaKH ba-shikast aashiyaa.n barbaad gasht

Shah Akbar Danapuri

sher

vo ai 'sīmāb' kyuuñ sar-gashta-e-tasnīm-o-jannat ho
mayassar jis ko sair-e-tāj aur jamunā kā sāhil hai

Seemab Akbarabadi

Persian Sufi Poetry

badaa.n avval ki taa chuu.n gasht maujuud
ki taa insaan-e-kaamil gasht mauluud

Mahmood Shabistari