Sufi Articles

PERSIAN POETRY AND LIFE IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY- REYNOLD A NICHOLSON

A thorn in the foot is so hard to find how is it, then with a thorn in the heart ? Answer that !
Somebody sticks a thorn under a donkey’s tail. The donkey does not know how to get rid of it. He starts jumping

Islamic Culture Journal

Sufi Quotes

Shams is “The Lord of the lord of the lords of truth” and “the chief of the lord of lords.” (Rumi) Shams Tabrezi discuses on the different aspects of Islamic mysticism as fellows: Blessing of God: “Blessing is excess, so to speak, an excess of everything. Don’t be content with being a Faqih, say I want more-more than being a Sufi, more than being a mystic -more than each thing that comes before you.”

Shams is “The Lord of the lord of the lords of truth” and “the chief of the lord of lords.” (Rumi)
Shams Tabrezi discuses on the different aspects of Islamic mysticism as fellows: Blessing of God: “Blessing is excess, so to speak, an excess of everything. Don’t be content with being a Faqih, say I want more-more than being a Sufi, more than being a mystic -more than each thing that comes before you.”

Shams Tabrezi

Sufi Quotes

Shams praises Rumi. But if Rumi illumines the common people, that is only because he reflects the light which Shams shines upon him: “Well, how could I offend you? I am fearful to kiss your feet, feast my lashes scratch them. Union with you is mast Precious. Alas that life will not last. I wish I had a world full of gold to bestow upon union with you.”

Shams praises Rumi. But if Rumi illumines the common people, that is only because he reflects the light which Shams shines upon him: “Well, how could I offend you? I am fearful to kiss your feet, feast my lashes scratch them. Union with you is mast Precious. Alas that life will not last. I wish I had a world full of gold to bestow upon union with you.”

Shams Tabrezi

Sufi Quotes

Shams desires to find the companionship of a true saint: “I implored God to allow me to mix with and be a companion with his friends (Saints). I had a dream and was told, “We will make you a companion of a saint.” I asked, “Where is the saint?” The next night I was told in a dream, “He is in Anatolia (Rum).” After some while I had another dream and was told, “It’s not yet time. All things come in the fullness of time.”

Shams desires to find the companionship of a true saint: “I implored God to allow me

Shams Tabrezi

Sufi Quotes

Shams claims for himself the status of a Owaisi Sufi, one whose spiritual illumination comes not though a teacher, but directly from God: “Everyone talks of his own Sheikh. In a dream the Prophet Muhammad gave me a ceremonial cloak (Khirqa), not the kind that will wear out and rip after a few days and fall in the bath house and be washed of dirt, but a cloak of converse (Sohbat), not a converse that can be comprehended, but a converse that is not of yesterday, today or tomorrow.

Shams claims for himself
the status of a Owaisi Sufi, one whose spiritual illumination comes not

Shams Tabrezi

Ghazal

ai rashk-e-qamar aage tire shams-o-qamar kyaa
sau jaa.n se fidaa huu.n mai.n ye hai jaan-o-jigar kyaa

Mardan Safi

Sufi Quotes

Shams is far less concerned with ritual and jurisprudence than with his mystical intimations. He says: “Your preoccupation should be to know “Who am I, what is my essence? And to what end have I come here and where am I headed and what are my roots and what am I doing this very hour and what is my focus?”

Shams is far less concerned with ritual and jurisprudence than with his mystical intimations. He says: “Your preoccupation should be to know “Who am I, what is my essence? And to what end have I come here and where am I headed and what are my roots and what am I doing this very hour and what is my focus?”

Shams Tabrezi

Sufi Quotes

Shams sets out in search of someone after his own nature to be his spiritual companion: “I can talk to myself. I can talk with anyone in whom I see myself... I wanted someone of my own type to make into my qeble (the direction one faces is prayer) and turn to, for I have grown tired of myself? Do you understand what I mean by having frown tired of myself? Then, having turned into a Qibla, he would understand and comprehend what I am saying.

Shams sets out in search of someone after his own nature to be his spiritual companion:
“I

Shams Tabrezi

Sufi Quotes

Shams tells Rumi that he must practice mysticism, not just read about it. Eventually Rumi turns away from his book learning.

Shams tells Rumi that he must practice mysticism, not just read about it. Eventually Rumi turns away from his book learning.

Shams Tabrezi

sher

kahaa.n 'shams' ba.ndaa kahaa.n tuu KHudaayaa
KHudaa-o-KHudii ham bhulaa.e hu.e hai.n

Shams Sabri

Persian Sufi Poetry

mehr-e-ruuyat chuu taaft bar a.alam
yaaft zarraat-e-kaa.enaat zuhuur

Shams Maghribi

Ghazal

ye 'raaz'-gar kii karaamat nahii.n to kyaa hai raaz
Gulaam-e-silsilaa-e-naam-e-buu-turaab kiyaa

Shah Taqi Raaz Barelvi

Ghazal

tuluu’-e-shams-o-qamar se numuud-e-jalva-e-dost
ik e'timaad-e-nazar ke sivaa kuchh aur nahii.n

Adeeb Saharanpuri

Sufi Quotes

Shams said “Knowledge is for attaining the Known.” Knowledge that takes you not beyond yourself such knowledge is far worse than ignorance. Rumi was amazed by this and fell before the great man and ceased his teaching.

Shams said “Knowledge is for attaining the Known.” Knowledge that takes you not beyond yourself such knowledge is far worse than ignorance. Rumi was amazed by this and fell before the great man and ceased his teaching.

Shams Tabrezi

Ghazal

vo a.alam thaa shams-o-qamar muskuraa.e
suu-e-dil jo vo dekh kar muskuraa.e

Ghubar Bhatti

Persian Sufi Poetry

bar safha-e-ruKHsaar-e-har-maah-e-parii-ruu.e
harfe do seh az daftar-e-husnat shuda maktuub

Shams Maghribi

Sufi Quotes

On joy, sorrow and same: “Joy is like pure clear water; wherever it flows, wondrous blossoms grow... Sorrow is like black flood; wherever it flows it wilts the blossoms”. of Sama, Shams says: “The dancing of the men of God is elegant and delicate. It’s like a leaf flowing on the water’s surface. Inside like a mountain, a whole range of mountains, and outside like straw”

On joy, sorrow and same:
“Joy is like pure clear water; wherever it flows, wondrous blossoms grow... Sorrow is like black flood; wherever it flows it wilts the blossoms”. of Sama, Shams says: “The dancing of the men of God is elegant and delicate. It’s like a leaf flowing on the water’s surface. Inside like a mountain, a whole range of mountains, and outside like straw”

Shams Tabrezi

Ghazal

falak par jo shams-o-qamar dekhte hai.n
to ham apnaa daaG-e-jigar dekhte hai.n

Haseer Azimabadi

Persian Sufi Poetry

anvaar-e-jamaal-e-tust dar diida-e-har-momin
dastaar-e-jalaal-e-tust dar siina-e-har-kaafir

Shams Maghribi

Ghazal

lutf-e-shub.haa-e-taar ne maaraa
lazzat-e-intizaar ne maaraa

Shams Kalkattavi