Persian Kalam

charaa kushtii shahiide aashiqe be-KHaan-o-maane raa
javaane naa-tavaane be-nishaane KHasta-jaane raa

Shaheed

Pad

charan chalau shriwrindawan mag jahn muni ali pik kir

charan chalau shrivrindaavan mag jah.n muni ali pik kiir
kar tum kaarau karam krshnaarpan aha.nkaar taji dhiir

Jugal Priya

Did You Know

Ali Haider raised his voice against injustice and oppression. We find the word of great revolution against injustice, in the poetry of Ali Haider. Indians have accepted the yoke of slavery under Persia and Khurasan. Haider does not hesitate to satire who was ruling in India. Poet writes, "Don't they get poison? Why don't they die? There Turks have become shameless. Some of the traitors are offering plenty of wealth to the foreign invaders from Persia and Khurasan.

Ghazal

ye saaqii kii karaamat hai ki faiz-e-mai-parastii hai
ghaTaa ke bhes me.n mai-KHaane par rahmat barastii hai

Bedam Shah Warsi

Did You Know

Syed Karam Ali Shah lived during the reign of Ranjit Singh. He belonged to Qadri order

Ghazal

aate hii mahak uTThe gaa sab hashr kaa maidaa.n
lakho.n me.n jo chhuptii nahii.n vo buu-e-ali hai

Riyaz Khairabadi

Shabad

bhed ka ang - jhari lagai mahaliya gagan ghahray

khan garjai khan bijulii chamkai
lahar uThai sobhaa barni na jaay

Mahatma Dhani Dharamdas Ji

Persian Kalam

ma.anii afroz-e-maqaamaat-e-KHafii-o-iKHfaa
suurat-e-karaamaat-e-jalii shaah-e-najaf

Azeez Safipuri

Doha

man se kahan rahim parbhu dwag so kahan diwan

man se kahaa.n rahiim parbhu dvag so kahaa.n divaan
dekhi dvagan jo aadrai man tehi haath bikaan

Raheem

Persian Sufi Poetry

ala ya ayyohas-saqi ba-deh jam-e-mai-e-nabam

alaa yaa ayyohas-saaqii ba-deh jaam-e-mai-e-naabam
ki afganad-ast hushiyaare muraa dar pech-o-dar-taabam

Shah Niyaz Ahmad Barelwi

Qissa

Qissa Chahaar Darvesh

I according plunged into that same river one night in order to drown myself, and went

Amir Khusrau

Persian Sufi Poetry

mohammad gul ast wa ali bu-e-gul

mohammad gul ast va alii buu-e-gul
buvad faatima andar aa.n barg-e-gul

Amin Sajid

Sufi-Terminology

Nuqaba
This hierarchy of saints are three hundred in number, and are all known as Ali.

Pad

premalap ke pad - chandr wadan par mahaaro bhanro basyo ai aali

kaliyaa.n ne dekhyaa.n mahaaro bha.nvar ha.nsyo ai aalii
lagan lagii jadyaa.n laaj kahaa.n ga.ii

Meera

Persian Sufi Poetry

manam az baada-e-hubb-e-ali sarshaar mi-raqsam

namii-daanam quyuud-e-diin-o-iimaa.n maz.hab-o-millat
shahiid-e-naaz man hastam ba-pesh-e-yaar mii-raqsam

Abdulhadi Kavish

Ghazal

Syed Mazahir Ali Khan ‘mazhar’

Maktub

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

Dear Sir
I take great pleasure in answering your question about Warith Aly Shah (WARIS ALI SHAH) and telling you all that i know about him. My meeting with this ascetic was an important event in my life, and it can only be valued by reading the outline of my biography . I love to record it, and when i do so, i feel the fond grasp of gratitude of the sweetest divine attributes.

Galaraza, Viscount of Santa Clara

Sufi-Terminology

5. Haya-e-hashmat: (decorum for the dignity of a relationship) Like Hazrat Ali who could not ask the

Ghazal

be-qaraarii se ta.Daptaa dekh o puuchhaa mujhe
ai shahiid-e-teG-e-abruu tujh kuu.n biimaarii hai kyaa

Shah Turab Ali Deccani

Kaafi

ai husn-e-haqiqi nur-e-azal

tainuu.n har dil daa dildaar kahuu.n
tainuu.n ahmad aalii shaan kahuu.n

Khwaja Ghulam Farid