Category: The Jewelled Garden

For more about the 11th c.. Afghani Sufi Hakim Sanai, see this earlier post. My dear!You haven’t the feetfor this path —why struggle?You’ve no idea wherethe idol’s to be found Continue Reading →

The following is taken from the Intimate Invocations of Khwaja Abdullah Ansari. For more about this early Sufi master, see this post. O God,I seek refuge in You from two Continue Reading →

The mystic and poet Sarmad may have been an Armenian Jew born in Persia. His birth date is unknown, but he ended his days in 1659, condemned to death by Continue Reading →

The following brief passage is taken from the tenth of Fakhruddin Iraqi’s Divine Flashes. For more about this 13th century Persian Sufi, see this earlier post. When the lover contemplates Continue Reading →

Lalon (1774? – 1890? CE), also known as Fakir Lalon Shah, was a prominent Baul saint in Bengal. The Bauls form a musical, mystical tradition that is similar to Sufism. Continue Reading →

For more about the 10th c. Sufi Sheikh Abu Saeed Abil Khair, see this earlier post. Those with no sense of honour and dignity are best avoided.Those who change colours Continue Reading →

For more about Khwaja Abdullah Ansari, who was known as the Pir of the city of Herat in Afghanistan, see this earlier post. O seekers:        Hurry up.O night travellers:        Don’t go to Continue Reading →

For more about the 17th century Maharashtran poet Tukaram, see this earlier post, and this one. All men to me are god-like Gods!     My eyes no longer see     vice or fault. Life Continue Reading →

Bayazid – or Abu Yazid – Bistami (804 – 874 CE) was an ecstatic Sufi from the small city of Bastam in north central Persia. Very little is known about Continue Reading →

For more about Rabia al Adawiyya (714? — 801 CE), see this post. “O my God, my work and my desire, in all this world, is recollection of you and Continue Reading →