by admin | Feb 26, 2024 | Muslim/Sufi, Poems by Men
Khusro! the river of love has a reverse flowHe who enters will drown, he who drowns will get across.
by admin | Feb 14, 2024 | Muslim/Sufi, Poems by Men
Full near I came unto where dwellethLayla, when I heard her call.That voice, would I might ever hear it!She favored me, and drew me to her,Took me in, into her precinct,With discourse intimate addressed me.She sat me by her, then came closer,Raised the cloak that hid...
by admin | Feb 7, 2024 | Muslim/Sufi, Poems by Men
Cast away your existence entirely,for it is nothing but weeds and refuse.Go, clear out your heart’s chamber;arrange it as the abiding-place of the Beloved.When you go forth, He will come in,and to you, with self discarded,He will unveil His beauty.
by admin | Feb 6, 2024 | Muslim/Sufi, Poems by Men
If life remains, I shall go back to the tavernand do no other work than serve the revelers.Happy day when, with streaming eyes,I shall go again to sprinkle the tavern floor.There is no knowledge among these folk,Suffer me, God, to offer my jewel of self to another...
by admin | Jan 31, 2024 | Muslim/Sufi, Poems by Men
I witnessed my Maker with my heart’s eye.I asked, ‘Who are You?’ He answered, ‘You!’For You one cannot ask, Where?Because where is Where for You?You do not pass through the imaginationOr else we’ll know where You are.You are He who...
by admin | Jan 26, 2024 | Muslim/Sufi, Poems by Men
He’s that rascally kind of yogiwho has no sky or earth,no hand, foot,form or shape.Where there’s no markethe sets up shop,weighs thingsand keeps the accounts.No deeds, no creeds,no yogic powers,not even a horn or gourd,so how can hego begging?”I know...
