Did You Know

Shah Hussain has been the source of all the Punjabi Vedantic Sufi Poets, prominent or ordinary, who wrote often him notable Shah Sharaf, Sultan Bahu. Bulleh Shah, Shah Murad. His poetry proved a storehouse of poetic Symbols and literary expressions of mystical experiences which others borrowed from it so much so his style has also been followed.

Ghazal

ze-haal-e-miskii.n makun taGaaful duraa.e nainaa.n banaa.e batiyaa.n
ki taab-e-hijraa.n na-daaram ai jaa.n na lehuu kaahe lagaa.e chhatiyaa.n

Amir Khusrau

Sufi-Terminology

Hazrat Sultan-ul-Mashikh was gifted by Allah a disciple (murid) like Amir Khusro. His eagerness for sama

Persian Sufi Poetry

ai ki ba-hangam-e-dard rahat-e-jaani mara

dar raka.aat-e-namaaz hast KHayaal-e-tuu shah
vaajib va laazim chunaanak sab.a-e-masaanii maraa

Maulana Rumi

Persian Kalam

dosh chashm-e-jaanam az diidaar-e-shah pur-nuur buud
mutrib-e-maa zohra-o-saaqii-e-majlis huur buud

Mansoor Hallaj

Persian Kalam

ai shaafe-e-tar daamnaa.n-o- vai chaara-e-dard-e-nihaa.n
jaan-e-dil-o-ruuh-e-ravaa.n ya.anii shah-e-arsh aastaa.n

Ahmad Raza Khan

Maktub

Count Galaraza (A spanish Student of Waris Pak) and his letter

Like a calm sleep after a long strain, these words produced a quite satisfaction in my

Galaraza, Viscount of Santa Clara

Persian Kalam

mastii-o-ta.ng-dastii badnaam-e-KHalq saazad
baa tarz-e-shah che nisbat darvesh-e-be-navaa raa

Zaibunnisa Begam Makhfi

Persian Sufi Poetry

ba-deh dast-e-yaqin a dil ba-dast-e-shah-e-jilani

ba-deh dast-e-yaqii.n a dil ba-dast-e-shaah-e-jiilaanii
ki dast-e-uu buud andar haqiiqat dast-e-yazdaanii

Shah Niyaz Ahmad Barelwi

Persian Kalam

be-jamaalat niist raushan kalba-e-ahzaan-e-man
saaz raushan kalba-am ai shaah-e-KHuubaa.n al-Giyaas

Khwaja Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki

Malfooz

Someone said: “A true lover must be submissive and abject and longsuffering.” And they listed other

Maulana Rumi

Did You Know

Dara Shukoh was the first one to break his silence by describing techniques of Zikr in a written text. Shah Kalimullah wrote Kashkol as an answer to Dara Shukoh's treatise is an attempt to demonstrate the all encompassing nature of his own practical teachings.

Persian Kalam

ai maah-e-man-o-shaah-e-sipaah-e-hama KHuubaa.n
KHuubaa.n hama shaahand-o-tuu-shaah-e-hama KHuubaa.n

Nooruddin Hilali

Persian Kalam

ka.aba-e-dil qbila-e-jaa.n yaa-rasuulallah tu.ii
sajda-e-miskii.n 'hasan' har-lahza baadaa suu-e-tuu

Amir Hasan Ala Sijzi

Persian Kalam

sultaan-e-saraacha-e-huzuurem
bar markab-e-ishq shah-savaarem

Khwaja Ahmad Jaam

Pad

hamein tawaqqoa shah mujibullah tere ek karam ka

talKH-gaah chaukhaT hai teraa is qadar aur jam kaa
banda hai 'dildaar' teraa ai shah bedaamo diram kaa

Sant Kavi Dildar

Persian Kalam

az pai-e-dil burdan-e-miskii.n 'hasan' az shahr-e-quds
dar hariim-e-kun-fakaa.n poshiida ruKHsaar aamdii

Amir Hasan Ala Sijzi

Sufi-Terminology

6. Khilafat-e-takleef: When a murid tries to get khilafat from his sheikh by personal effort and recommendations

Persian Kalam

miskii.n 'hasan' mii-goyadat ai vaqt-e-ushshaaq-e-tuu KHush
gar man az iishaa.n niistam dar kaar-e-iishaa.n kun maraa

Amir Hasan Ala Sijzi

Gujari Sufi Kavya

lokan dhan shah ek wajud hain

lokaa.n dhan shah ek vajuud hai.n
phokaT mu.nh ham ko.ii na bolo

Shah Ali Jeev Gamdhani