Hafiz Poem ( Sufi Mystic)  A Tethered Falcon  My heart sits on the Arm of God Like a tethered falcon Suddenly unhooded. I am now blessedly crazed Because my Master’s Astounding Effulgence is in constant view. My piercing eyes, which have searched every world For Tenderness and Love,  Now lock on the Royal Target  The Wild Holy One  Whose Beauty Illuminates Existence. My soul endures a magnificent longing. I am a tethered falcon With great wings and sharp talons poised, Every sinew taut, like a Sacred Bow, Quivering at the edge of my Self And...

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Bulleh shah

    Bulleh Shah Kafi    Baba Bulleh Shah di Kafi Parrh Parrh Aalim Faazil Hoya Kaddi Apney Aap noo Parrheya hi nahin Jaa Jaa Warda Mandir Maseetaan Kaddi Mun Apney Vich tun Wardeya ee Nahin Ainwayn Roz Shaitaan dey naal Larda Kaddi Nafs Apney Naal Lardeya ee nahin Bulleh Shah Aasmaanin Uddiyaan Phardaa Jaidha Ghar Baitha Ohnun Phardeya ee Nahin Baba Bulleh Shah Kafi in English Translation Studying Baba Bulleh Shah’s books over and over you want to be a learned man but you never study your innerself you run to enter mosques and temples but you never enter into your innerself you...

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Mawlana Muhammad Jalal ud-Deen Bulkhi "Rumi"-Quotes

"Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure."   "The wound is the place where the Light enters you." "My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there." "That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty,  He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful." "Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth." "We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust." "Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as...

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Haroon Rashid and his Pious Son

Haroon Rashid and his Pious Son Khalifah Haroon Rashid Rahmatullah alaihe had a son, about sixteen years of age, who used to associate frequently with the ascetics and spiritual leaders of those times. He would often go to the graveyard, sit by the graves and say, “There was a time when you inhabited this world and you were its masters. But the world did not protect you and you ended up in graves. Would that I knew what you are experiencing now! I wish I knew what you said in reply to the questions that were asked of you!” He used to recite this couplet very often: “The funerals frighten me everyday,...

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Shaykh Abdul Qadir Jilani

He Reached The State of Siddiqeen  The Holy Prophet MuhammadMustafaSallallahu alaihi wa Sallam is the last Prophet, there is no prophet after him. But people can still aspire to spiritual progress, acquire taqwa (piety) and saintliness and become Awliya Allah (friends of Allah). And the highest spiritual state after anbiya (prophets), belongs to the Siddiqeen (the truthful) that is why the Holy Prophet taught us to make the dua:Allahummaj 'alna min-as-Siddiqeen (O Allah make us among the truthful). Well, Shaykh Abdul Qadir Jilani Rady Allahu Anh manifested to the world that he ranked among the siddiqeen at the ripe age of 18. At that...

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No Escape from Death

"Wherever you may be, death shall overtake you,  even if you were in fortified towers". Noble Qur'an (4:78) No Escape from Death  It is narrated that one day, a man entered the court of Prophet Solomon / Sulaiman (as) looked around at all the people and went out again. When the court adjourned, one of the people present approached Prophet Sulaiman (as) and asked him whether he knew this strange man. "The person you saw was the angel of death (Izrael)" replied Prophet Sulaiman (as). The man was taken aback and looked worried. "Why was he staring at me as though he wanted to take my soul?" he asked....

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Love for the world

 " What do you have ?" " What designer clothes are you wearing ?" " How much wealth and fame do you have? " This  is how a materialist would judge, they are the ones who are attached to this world and have love for the things of this world, they only see with one eye their external eye and base their judgment on the exterior, while their inside are blind. "Among them there are some who listen to you. But can you make the deaf hear incapable as they are of understanding? Among them there are some who look at you. But can you guide the blind, bereft as they are of sight? Allah does not wrong people in any way; rather it is people...

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