Did You Know

Hyderabadi Sufi Sheikh and poet Abdul Qadir Siddhiqui Hasrat learnt music as one of the sciences,

Sufi-Terminology

iii. The abdaal of the thirst realm, whose heart resembles the heart of prophet Harron. His name is Abdul Mureed.
iv. The abdaal of the fourth realm, whose heart resembles the heart of prophet Idrees. His name is Abdul Qadir.

Did You Know

Hazrat Sultan Bahu was the disciple and khalifa of Sayyad Abdurrhman Dehlavi, who comes in the spiritual hierarchy of Abdul Qadir Jilani, the founder of the Qadri order. Bahu learnt Vedantic views from the Qadri teacher, whose system already accepted Vedantic influence.

Persian Kalam

ai 'auhadii' ii.n sharaf ba-maa bas
KHud raa ze-sagaan-e-uu shumaarem

Auhadi

Persian Kalam

'sharaf' dar ishq-e-uu gasht aa.n 'qalandar'
ki haftaad-o-do-millat yaar daarad

Boo Ali Shah Qalandar

Persian Kalam

ai 'auhadii' ii.n sharaf ba-maa bas
KHud raa ze-sagaan-e-uu shumaarem

Auhadi

Sufi-Terminology

The Sufi elite of the Chishtia Sabriah lineage has a special fondness for sama. Hazrat Qutbut-Alam Shaikh Abdul Quddoos Gangohi, head of the current lineage of Shariah sama, was a great scholar, and a spiritual leader of unparalleled caliber with a very sweet nature. He was very fond of sama and wajd. Qazi Sanaullah of Panipat wrote:
“Hazrat Shaikh, refuge for both the worlds, Abdul Quddoos

Nazm

madih-e-Khairul-mursalin

mohr-e-tauhiid kii zau auj-e-sharaf kaa mah-e-nau
sham.a-e-iijaad kii lo bazm-e-risaalat kaa ka.nval

Mohsin Kakorvi

Persian Kalam

saram pechaa.n dilam pechaa.n manam pechiida-e-jaanaa.n
'sharaf' chuu.n maar mii-pechad che biinii maar-e-pechaa.n raa

Boo Ali Shah Qalandar

Persian Kalam

dil baad manzil-e-Gam-o-sar KHaak-e-maqdamat
kii.n mujib-e-sharaf buvad aa.n maaya-e-tarab

Mulla Jami

Persian Sufi Poetry

dar sina daram koh-e-gham danad agar yar in qadar

bechaara-ii az dast shud aaKHir che kam gardad ze-tuu
gar baaz go.ii ai sabaa dar hazrat-e-yaar ii.n qadar

Amir Khusrau

Persian Kalam

'sharaf' ar baad vazad buu.e ze-zulfash ba-barad
baad raa niiz darii.n dahr vaziidan na-deham

Boo Ali Shah Qalandar

Dakni Sufi Kavya

haalat-e-wiladat aan-hazrat

shikam me.n aamnaa ke hai.n mohammad
sharaf mu.nd un ke ho tum jadd-e-amjad

Karimuddin Sarmast

Ghazal

kis qadar mahv-e-tamaashaa ho gayaa
us kii suurat mai.n saraapaa ho gayaa

Azeez Safipuri

Manqabat-Na.at

dil-e-betaab apnaa kis qadar muztar hai furqat me.n
hamaarii jaan bhii jaa.egii ik din yaad-e-hazraat me.n

Ahmad Wah Warsi

Bait

ahd-e-rafta ki khudai kis qadar mahngi paDi

ahd-e-rafta kii khudaa.ii kis qadar mah.ngii pa.Dii
jis jagah uu.nchii imaarat thii ga.Dhaa saa rah gayaa

Muzaffar Warsi

Nazm

hazir huzur mein shoara-e-dayar hain

un me.n hai.n do sharaf ki hakiim-o-faqiir hai.n
yaktaa hai.n vo ki aap hii apnii naziir hai.n

Riyaz Farogh Warsi

Shabad

chala ja kadar nahin jaani

chalaa jaa kadar nahii.n jaanii
kaagaj paathar puujai duniyaa nahaavai tiirath paanii

Ishwardas

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.

Persian Kalam

az jamaal-e-KHud musharraf kun ki taa yaabam sharaf
ii.n 'kamaal'-e-aarzuu dar baargaah aavarda-am

Kamal