Persian Sufi Poetry

dilam malaal giraft az jahaa.n va har-che daruust
daruun-e-KHaatir-e-man kas na-gunjad illaa dost

Hafiz

Kalaam

fanaa ban kar malaal KHaatir mahzuun-e-'ayaa.n kyuu.n ho
ko.ii ye bhii digar puuchhe ki sargarm-e-fuGaa.n kyuu.n ho

Unknown

sher

milne kii hai KHushii to bichha.Dne kaa hai malaal
dil mutma.in bhii aap se hai be-qaraar bhii

Purnam Allahabadi

Ghazal

use kyuu.n sahr se nishaat ho use kyaa malaal ho shaam se
jise ishq hai tire zikr se jise uns hai tire naam se

Aziz Warsi Dehlvi

Shabad

aisa bhi mil ja koi chatur mallah

aisaa bhii mil jaa ko.ii chatur mallaah
jo merii naav ko paar lagaa de rii

Dhotram Das

Doha

bhai re mallah hum ko par utar

bhaa.ii re mallaah ham ko paar utaar
haath ko de.u.ngii mundaraa gale ko de.u.ngii haar

Amir Khusrau

Sufi Articles

Mullah Nasiruddin Modern Tales -2

A street cat approached him for some food. He bought a pack of biscuits from a

Arun Prakash Ray

Naat-o-Manqabat

hai dard-o-Gam se dil maluul ruuhii fidaa yaa rasuul
har dam hai lutf-e-haq nuzuul ruuhii fidaa yaa rasuul

Unknown

Ghazal

is kaa hame.n malaal hai ham kyuu.n badal ga.e
is kaa nahii.n malaal ki vo bad-gumaa.n hai.n kyuu.n

Behzad Lakhnavi

Sufi Quotes

You eat up the simple folk by fraud and making false promises to them. By gaining bookish knowledge, you have become mullah, jurist. God is happy without such knowledge. Your greed is intensified each day and it had made you wretched.

You eat up the simple folk by fraud and making false promises to them. By gaining bookish knowledge, you have become mullah, jurist. God is happy without such knowledge. Your greed is intensified each day and it had made you wretched.

Bulleh Shah

Rubai

kaare ki az avval buudash ra.nj-o-malaal
maalast za mehnatash vabaal ast ma.aal

Sarmad Kashani

Masnavi

saada-o-yak ra.ng gashte chuu.n ziyaa
niist yak-ra.nge kaz uu kHezad malaal

Rumi

Ghazal

rahe to a.alam-e-hastii me.n der tak 'siimaab'
magar malaal rahaa ki musta.aar rahe

Seemab Akbarabadi

Naat-o-Manqabat

mai.n qadmo.n se huu.n duur sarkaar ke
mujhe sab se ba.Dh kar yahii hai malaal

Yahya Hussain Pasha

Ghazal

lab KHand se hamaaraa ilaaqa nahii.n ko.ii
ham-sar kHush-malaal hai.n sarshaar girya hai.n

Moeen Nizami

Kalaam

chhate.n gaurii taak ke bhar pichkaarii maar
mil kar a.De lahuu miraa gard-e-malaal me.n

Unknown

Masnavi

uu bahaana darda baa-man az malaal
guftam aakHir Garq-e-tust ii.n ’aql-o-jaa.n

Rumi

Naat-o-Manqabat

malaal-e-ranj-o-alam hind me.n sataate hai.n
KHudaa ke vaaste taiba bulaa Gariib-navaaz

Abdul Kareem Mukhlis

Rubai

ba-guzaar dilaa vasvasa-e-fikr-e-muhaal
dar kash qadah-e-baad-o-ba-guzar za malaal

Omar Khayyam

Ghazal

fursat ke haath hai miraa aanaa ye kyaa kahaa
va.ade me.n bhii nikalte hai.n pahluu malaal ke

Faheem Gorakhpuri