Sufi Proverb

mevah ze mevah rang giirad

One fruit takes its color from another.

Oral Tradition

Naat-o-Manqabat

ham KHaak hai.n aur KHaak hii maavaa hai hamaaraa
KHaakii to vo aadam jadd-e-a.alaa hai hamaaraa

Ahmad Raza Khan

Sufi Quotes

To move ahead is necessary, but to what extent? How much progress do you need from your cradle to your grave? Real progressivism is that life should be easy and death, too, should not be difficult!

To move ahead is necessary, but to what extent? How much progress do you need from your cradle to your grave? Real progressivism is that life should be easy and death, too, should not be difficult!

Wasif Ali Wasif

Kaafi

tursin karo asaDi kari

galgal meva kii hadvaanaa kii ko.ii vaid pasaarii
tursii.n karo asaaDii kaarii

Bulleh Shah

Persian Sufi Poetry

ba-a.adat haal-haa baa KHuu.e gardad
ba-muddat meva-haa KHusbuu-e-gardad

Mahmood Shabistari

Persian Sufi Poetry

zaahiran aa.n shaaKH asl-e-meva ast
baatinan bahr-e-samar shud shaaKH hast

Rumi

Pad

abhilasha ke pad - aao re salona mara miThDa mohan

hari je re joiye te tamne aanii aanii aapu.n
miiThaai meva tamne khaavaa re

Mirabai

Persian Sufi Poetry

meva-e-maqsuud ke aarad daraKHt
taa na-kunad paa.e ba-yak jaa-e-saKHt

Jami

Persian Sufi Poetry

chuu meva zubda-e-sirra-e-daraKHt-ast
va-lekin shaiKH-e-dii.n ke gardad aa.n kuu

Mahmood Shabistari

Kalaam

KHushaa 'amiir' vo mun.im ki hoke daulat-mand
jhukaa.e sar shajar-e-meva-daar kii suurat

Ameer Minai

Persian Kalam

maa shaaKH-e-daraKHtem pur az meva-e-tauhiid
har rah-guzare sa.ng zanad aar na-daarem

Rumi

Ghazal

KHvaahish hai aag kii to takalluf ko duur kar
dekhii hai 'ishq' jaltii kabhii meva-daar shaaKH

Khwaja Ruknuddin Ishq

Persian Sufi Poetry

har zamaanam meva-e-diigar ba-kaam-e-jaa.n rasad
har damam buu-e-digar zaa.n bostaa.n aayad padiid

Rumi

Ghazal

meva-e-bāġh-e-iram us ko na bhāve hargiz
taubar-e-bosa kiyā jis ne vo seb-e-zaqnī

Mir Muhammad Bedar

Persian Kalam

az sharaab-e-Gaus-e-aazam gulshan-o-gulzaar mast
shaaKH mast-o-meva mast-o-barg mast baar mast

Fazil Deen

Krishn Bhakti Sufi Kalaam

ko.ii ghuTii baiThii garm kare ko.ii Daale uspand aur bhuusii
ko.ii laa.ii ha.nsulii aur kha.Dve ko.ii kurtaa Topii meva ghii

Nazeer Akbarabadi

Persian Sufi Poetry

beKH-e-shavat bar kun va shaaKH-e-shirah ki-andar bahisht
ii.n na-KHvaahad murG-o-meva vaanad gar huur-o-hariir

Hakeem Sanai

Sufi Articles

The Idea of India in Amir Khusrau

Further praising the Indian climate, Khusrau says that it is so moderate that a poor peasant

Ali Nadeem Rezavi