"SUFISM POETRY AND POEMS"

[From_Alamut]

Not Christain or Jew Or Muslim, not Hindu,
Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion

or cultural system. I am not from the East
or the West, not out of the ocean or up

from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not
composed of elements at all. I do not exist,

am not an entity in this world or the next,
did not descend from Adam and Eve or any

origin story. My place is placeless, a trace
of the traceless. Neither body or soul.

I belong to the Beloved, have seen the two
worlds as one and that one call to and know,

first, last, outer, inner, only that
breath breathing human being.

By: Mowlana Jelaluddin Balkhi Rumi (r.a)

[From_Alamut]

I
Have
Learned
So much from God
That I can no longer
Call
Myself
A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim,
A Buddhist, a Jew.
That I can no longer call myself
A man, a woman, an angel,
or Even pure
Soul.
Love has
Befriended Hafiz so completely
It has turned to ash
And freed
Me
Of every concept and image
My mind has ever known.

By: Great Sufi Master Hafiz (r.a)

[From_Alamut]

I am He whom I love,
and He whom I love is I:
We are two spirits
dwelling in one body.
If thou seest me,
thou seest Him,
And if thou seest Him,
thou seest us both.


By: Mansur al-Hallaj (r.a)

[From_Alamut]

Inside this new love, die.
Your way begins on the other side.
Become the sky.
Take an axe to the prison wall.
Escape.
Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.
Do it now.
You're covered with a thick cloud.
Slide out the side. Die,
and be quiet. Quiteness is the surest sign
that you've died.
Your old life was a frantic running
from silence.

The speechless full moon
comes out now.


By: Mowlana Jelaluddin Balkhi Rumi (r.a)

[From_Alamut]

The sun is the wine,
The moon is the cup.
Pour the sun into the moon
If you wanted to be fulled.
Drink such win
Could be good or bad-
Why not drink anyways!

By: Great Sufi Master Hafiz (r.a)

[From_Alamut]

Thy Spirit is mingled in my spirit
even as wine is mingled with pure water.
When anything touches Thee,
it touches me.
Lo, in every case Thou art I!"

By: Mansur al-Hallaj (r.a)

[From_Alamut]

My enemy mistakenly calls me a philosopher,
God knows I'm not what they says;
But since I have come to this abode of sorrow
I am too insignificant to know what I am.

By:Great Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam (r.a)

[From_Alamut]

Wisdom is the light to guide you life,
faith is the path, truth is God,
and understand this is Peace.

By:Great Sufi Master M.R Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (r.a)

[From_Alamut]

I need a jug of a wine and a book of poetry.
Half a loaf for a bite to eat,
Then you and I, seated in a deserted spot
Will have more wealth than a Sultan's realm.

By:Great Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam (r.a)

[From_Alamut]

“I was dead, then alive.
Weeping, then laughing.

The power of love came into me,
and I became fierce like a lion,
then tender like the evening star.".


By: Mowlana Jelaluddin Balkhi Rumi (r.a)

[From_Alamut]

Wonder,
A garden among the flames!

My heart can take on any form:
A meadow for gazelles,
A cloister for monks,
For the idols, sacred ground,
Ka'ba for the circling pilgrim,
The tables of the Torah,
The scrolls of the Quran.

My creed is Love;
Wherever its caravan turns along the way,
That is my belief,
My faith.


By: Great Sufi Master Ibn Arabi (r.a)

[From_Alamut]

" For your sake, I hurry over land and water:

For your sake, I cross the desert and split the mountain in two,

And turn my face from all things,

Until the time I reach the place

Where I am alone with You."

By: Mansur al-Hallaj (r.a)

[From_Alamut]

" Don't look at your form, however ugly or beautiful.
Look at love and at the aim of your quest. ...
O you whose lips are parched, keep looking for water.
Those parched lips are proof that eventually you will reach the source."


By: Mowlana Jelaluddin Balkhi Rumi (r.a)

[From_Alamut]

Ironic, but one of the most intimate acts
of our body is
death.



So beautiful appeared my death – knowing who then I would kiss,
I died a thousand times before I died.



“Die before you die,” said the Prophet

Muhammad.



Have wings that feared ever
touched the Sun?



I was born when all I once
feared – I could
love.


By: Great Woman Sufi Master Rabia Al Basri (r.a)

[From_Alamut]

I saw and found I am in everything
I saw God effulgent in everything.
After hearing and pausing see Siva
The House is His alone; Who am I, Lalla.


By: Great Woman Sufi Master Lalla Ded (r.a)

[From_Alamut]

Your hope in my heart is the rarest treasure
Your Name on my tongue is the sweetest word
My choicest hours
Are the hours I spend with You --
O Allah, I can't live in this world
Without remembering You--
How can I endure the next world
Without seeing Your face?
I am a stranger in Your country
And lonely among Your worshippers:
This is the substance of my complaint.


By: Great Woman Sufi Master Rabia Al Basri (r.a)[/quote]

[From_Alamut]

When my mind was cleansed of impurities,
like a mirror of its dust and dirt,
I recognized the Self in me:
When I saw Him dwelling in me,
I realized that He was the Everything
and I was nothing. .


By: Great Woman Sufi Master Lalla Ded (r.a)

[From_Alamut]

Kill me, my faithful friends,
For in my being killed is my life.

Love is that you remain standing
In front of your Beloved
When you are stripped of all your attributes;
Then His attributes become your qualities.

Between me and You, there is only me.
Take away the me, so only You remain


By: Mansur al-Hallaj (r.a)

[From_Alamut]

"I shall grasp the soul's skirt with my hand
and stamp on the world's head with my foot.
I shall trample Matter and Space with my horse,
beyond all Being I shall utter a great shout,
and in that moment when I shall be alone with Him, "


By: Great Sufi Master Attar (r.a)

[From_Alamut]

Thou art my salvation and freedom is mine,
I am not, I melt as a pearl in sweet wine!
My heart, soul, and self, yea, all these are thine;
O Lord I have no more to offer!

I drink of the nectar of truth the divine,
As Moses thy word, as Yusuf they shine
who walk in thy ways; and Christ is thy sign:
Thou raisest to life everlasting!

Thou art as Muhammad to them that repine,
My spirit is purged as the gold from a mine!
I only know that my heart beats with thine,
And joys in boundless freedom


By: Great Sufi Master Inayat Khan (r.a)

[From_Alamut]

" Alif -He who meditates on Allah
His face is pale, his eyes bloodshot.
He who suffers pangs of separation,
No longer he longs his life ~ last.
Say -Soulful is my love for you,
Whom shall I go and tell?
In the swelling waters of a river at midnight
A wailing swallow fell. "


By: Great Sufi Master Bulleh Shah (r.a)

[From_Alamut]

I wish ever to live in Thy love, O God
If I become the dust under Thy feet, I shall live
I thy slave desire none but Thee in both worlds;
For Thee I will live and for Thee I will die.


By: Great Sufi Master Baba Sheikh Farid Ji (r.a)

[From_Alamut]

I drink no wine, but not because I'm poor,
Nor get drunk, though not throught fear of scandal;
I drank to lighten my heart
But now that you have settled in my heart, I drink no more.

By:Great Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam (r.a)

[From_Alamut]

After despair, many hopes
flourish just as after darkness,
thousands of suns open and
start to shine.

each night, the moon
kisses secretly the lover
who counts the stars.

look for the soul, you become
soul. Hunt for the bread, you
become bread. Whatever you
look for, you are.

open your heart and
you will hear the lutes
of the angels.

The world grows green again,
And runs with gardens. Souls
Open, like suns, and link with
One another.


By: Mowlana Jelaluddin Balkhi Rumi (r.a)

[From_Alamut]

I have seen my Lord
with the eye of my heart,
and I said: "Who are You?"
He said:"You."

By: Mansur al-Hallaj (r.a)

[From_Alamut]

In the early morning hour,
just before dawn, lover and beloved wake
and take a drink of water.

She ask, "Do you love me or yourself more?
Really, tell the absolute truth."

He says, "There’s nothing left of me.
I’m like a ruby held up to the sunrise.
Is it still a stone, or a world
made of redness? It has no resistance
to sunlight."

This is how Mansur al-Hallaj said, I am God,
and told the truth!

The ruby and the sunrise are one.
Be courageous and discipline yourself.

Completely become hearing and ear,
and wear this sun-ruby as an earring.

Work. Keep digging your well.
Don’t think about getting off from work.
Water is there somewhere.

Submit to a daily practice.
Your loyalty to that
is a ring on the door.

Keep knocking, and the joy inside
will eventually open a window
and look out to see who’s there.

By: Mowlana Jelaluddin Balkhi Rumi (r.a)

[From_Alamut]

"I do not cease swimming in the seas of love, rising
with the wave, then descending; now the wave
sustains me, and then I sink beneath it; love bears me
away where there is no longer any shore."

By: Mansur al-Hallaj (r.a)

[From_Alamut]

Mansur al-Hallaj said what he said and went to the origin
through the cave in the scaffold.

I cut a cap's worth of cloth from his robe,
and it swamped over me from head to foot.

Years ago, I broke a bunch of roses
from the top of his wall. A torn from that
is still in my palm working deeper.

From Mansur al-Hallaj, I learned to hunt a lions,
but I became something hungrier than a lion.

I was a frisky colt. He broke me
with a quiet hand on the side of my head.

A person comes to him naked. It's cold.
There's a fur coat floating in the river.

"Jump in and get it," he says.
You dive in. You reach for the coat.
It reaches for you.

It's a live bear that has fallen in upstream,
drifting with the current.

"How long does it take!" Al-Hallaj yells from the bank.
"Don't wait," you answer. "This coat
has decided to wear me home!"

A little part of a story, a hint.
Do you need long sermons on Al-Hallaj!

By: Mowlana Jelaluddin Balkhi Rumi (r.a)

[From_Alamut]

You glide between the heart and its casing '
You glide between the heart and its casing as tears glide from the eyelid.
You dwell in my inwardness, in the depths of my heart, as souls dwell in bodies.
Nothing passes from rest to motion unless you move it in hidden ways,
O new moon

By: Mansur al-Hallaj (r.a)

[From_Alamut]

I am a fatherless pearl unrecognized by the sea.
I am the drop that contains the ocean.

Its waves are amazing. It's beautiful to be a sea
hidden within an infinity drop.

When Majnun spoke Layla's name,
he broke the meter of his poem.
I was both Layla and Majnun who adored her.

Mansur Al-Hallaj did not speak idly of Unity.
He was not kidding when he said, "I am Truth."

In this world of many,
You are Joseph and I am Jacob.
In the universe of Unity,
there is neither Joseph nor Canaan.

That my name is Yunus
is a problem in this material world.
But if you ask my real name
it is the Power behind all powers.

By: Great Sufi Master Yunus Emre (r.a)