Sufism: Poetry & Greats
When I read a collection of Mevlana Rumi's poems earlier this year called The Essential Rumi, I was hooked and now I love Sufi poetry and Eastern poetry more than Western. One of my university professors that I studied under years ago, Coleman Banks, is the translator of most of the poetry of Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī or Mevlana as the Turks call him. I've had a couple of Turkish students who are from Konya in Turkey where Mevlana settled after fleeing Afghanistan during the Mongol invasions. My interest in Mevlana Rumi's poetry has now expanded to Sufism in general and other Sufi poets. Sep 10
Sufism and the encounters that Sufism facilitates --encounters with God, love, and the deepest aspects of human consciousness-- have evoked feelings in Sufis that have poured out through their ravaged hearts onto their lucid tongues, providing us with some of the most beautiful and profound poetry ever written.
Sufi Poets and Sufi Poetry
Sufi Poetry
updated: 13-Aug-2010 A few poems from each of the following authors are included here as examples of the wondrous depth and variety of Sufi poetry:(1145-1146 - c. 1221; Persian : ابو حمید ابن ابوبکر ابراهیم ), better known by his pen-names ( ) and ( - "the perfumer"), was a Persian Muslim poet, theoretician of Sufism , and hagiographer from Nīshāpūr who had an abiding influence on Persian poetry and Sufism . Biography
Farid al-Din Attar
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Bibi Hayati Kermani | WISE Muslim Women
Şems'in 40 Kuralı | Üstadlar
Girmek istediğiniz http://www.reikiyasam.com/ustadlar/sems-in-40-kurali.html , fakat bu sayfa şu anda sistemimizde görünmemektedir. Peki ne olmuş olabilir?Rābiʻa al-ʻAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya ( Arabic : رابعة العدوية القيسية ) or simply Rābiʿah al-Baṣrī ( Arabic : رابعة البصري ) (717–801 C.E. ) was a female Muslim saint and Sufi mystic . [ edit ] Life
Rabia Basri
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Rabia Al Basra-Female Sufi Sant Of Love, Courage And Dedication | Magazine for Mind, Body & Soul- soul curry
Rabia Basri
I have loved Thee with two loves, a selfish love and a love that is worthy (of Thee). As for the love which is selfish, I occupy myself therein with remembrance of Thee to the exclusion of all others, As for that which is worthy of Thee, therien Thou raisest the veil that I may see Thee. Yet is there no praise to me in this or that, But the praise is to Thee, whether in that or this .Yunus Emre
Emre in TurkmenistanEL-GHAZALI
THE twelfth-century philosopher and Sufi El-Ghazali quotes in his Book of Knowledge this line from El-Mutanabbi: 'To the sick man, sweet water tastes bitter in the mouth.' This could very well be taken as Ghazali's motto. Eight hundred years before Pavlov, he pointed out and hammered home (often in engaging parables, sometimes in startlingly 'modern' words) the problem of conditioning.Compiled By: Firouzeh Mirrazavi, Deputy Editor of Iran Review Each year on December a religious celebration is held at the site of Rumi’s tomb, to which tens of thousands of pilgrims come. In the shrine there is a silver plated step on which the followers of Mowlana rub their foreheads and place kisses.
Mowlana, Poet of Life’s Dance | Payvand.com
Interview: 'Many Americans Love Rumi...But They Prefer He Not Be Muslim'
Source: RFE/RL Ibrahim Gamard is a California-based sheikh of the Sufi Mevlevi order and has spent his life translating the poetry of the 13th-century Sufi mystic, Rumi. Murtazali Dugrichilov of RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service spoke to Gamard about why Rumi is so popular in the West and the problems of modern-day Sufism.Rumi Ruminations - Wisdom of Rumi