Sufi Quotes

Life can't be cut short owing to all the uncertainities around it. Life can't be made long owing to all the cautions observed.

Life can't be cut short owing to all the uncertainities around it. Life can't be made long owing to all the cautions observed.

Wasif Ali Wasif

Sufi Quotes

Many a life is tong in years but meager in fruits, and many a life is short in years but rich in fruits.

Many a life is tong in years but meager in fruits, and many a life is short in years but rich in fruits.

Ibn-e-Ataullah Sikandari

Sufi Quotes

He who has been blessed in life attains, in a short time, to such gifts from God that no expression or symbolic allusion could describe.

He who has been blessed in life attains, in a short time, to such gifts from God that no expression or symbolic allusion could describe.

Ibn-e-Ataullah Sikandari

Sufi Quotes

Certainty comes from an abundance of faith and its inward realization. Certainty is a branch of faith and short of confirming the trust of faith. And the beginning of certainty is unveiling.

Certainty comes from an abundance of faith and its inward realization. Certainty is a branch of faith and short of confirming the trust of faith. And the beginning of certainty is unveiling.

Sahl bin Abdullah Tustari

Sufi Quotes

Someone asked: “What is meant by sair-o-suluk? He said exhaustive knowledge of God (marifat). He again asked: “What is that?” To transmit (spiritual wealth) fully what has been attained from the mukhbir-e-sadiq (Bringer of true intelligence; a title of the Holy Prophet) in short,” he replied.

Someone asked: “What is meant by sair-o-suluk? He said exhaustive knowledge of God (marifat). He again asked: “What is that?” To transmit (spiritual wealth) fully what has been attained from the mukhbir-e-sadiq (Bringer of true intelligence; a title of the Holy Prophet) in short,” he replied.

Khwaja Bahauddin Naqshband

Naat-o-Manqabat

sharii'at Gaus-e-aazam kii tariiqat Gaus-e-aazam kii
nizaam-e-diin-o-duniyaa hai amaanat Gaus-e-aazam kii

Manzoor Aarfi

sher

azm-o-istiqlaal hai shart-e-muqaddam ishaq me.n
ko.ii jaada kyuu.n na ho insaan us par jam rahe

Kamil Shattari

Sufi-Terminology

Shariat is the outer code of injunctions and prohibitions, further details are explained in books of jurisprudence.
Tareeqat is the way of the seekers. A refinement of manners; to change vices into virtues. This is also called the ‘inward journey’ (safr-dar-watan).

Rubai

bazm-e-ishrat me.n chashm-e-nam-naak huu.n mai.n
parvaane jo jal bujhe hai.n vo KHaak huu.n mai.n

Kausar Khairabadi

Ghazal

ba-har-lamha tafsiir-e-soz-e-mohabbat sharii.at nahii.n hai to phir aur kyaa hai
tasavvur tire taaq-e-abruu kaa shab bhar ibaadat nahii.n hai to phir aur kyaa hai

Turfa Qureshi

sher

'riyaaz' maut hai is shart se hame.n manzuur
zamii.n sataa.e na marne pe aasmaa.n kii tarah

Riyaz Khairabadi

Pad

awwal manzil hai talib ke chalne ko rah shariat ki

avval manzil hai taalib ke chalne ko raah sharii.at kii
behtar hai iskii KHaatir chalnaa pahle Dagar tariiqat kii

Kavi Dildar

Sufi Quotes

I have come to a raging river, where man is in great travail. How Strange it is that there is neither a boat nor a boatsman. Shariat (law) is the boat and Tariqat (way) is the sail. Haqiqat (reality) is the anchor, and reason alone can find no way.

I have come to a raging river, where man is in great travail. How Strange it is that there is neither a boat nor a boatsman. Shariat (law) is the boat and Tariqat (way) is the sail. Haqiqat (reality) is the anchor, and reason alone can find no way.

Lal Shahbaz Qalandar

Kalaam

KHushii se duur huu.n naa-aashnaa-e-bazm-e-’ishrat huu.n
saraapaa dard huu.n vaabasta-e-zanjeer-e-qismat huu.n

Shah Mohsin Danapuri

sher

KHushii se duur huu.n naa-aashnaa-e-bazm-e-ishrat huu.n
saraapaa dard huu.n vaabasta-e-zanjeer-e-qismat huu.n

Shah Mohsin Danapuri

sher

KHushii se duur huu.n naa-aashnaa-e-bazm-e-ishrat huu.n
saraapaa dard huu.n vaabasta-e-zanjeer-e-qismat huu.n

Shah Mohsin Danapuri

Bait

shart-e-dair-o-haram nahin koi

shart-e-dair-o-haram nahii.n ko.ii
us kaa jalva kahaa.n nahii.n saaheb

Athar Niazi

Kalaam

hai nahii.n jis me.n haqiiqat vo sharii'at kaisii
jis me.n iKHlaas na ho vo hai tariiqat kaisii

Tasadduq Ali Asad

Rubai

tashriih-e-sharii'at-o-tariiqat ye hai
aqtaab-o-auliyaa kii sunnat ye hai

Pir Naseeruddin Naseer

sher

mire Gam-e-nihaa.n me.n hai naved-e-ishrat-aafrii.n
bahaar hii bahaar hai mirii KHizaa.n liye hu.e

Bedam Shah Warsi