Category: The Jewelled Garden

The following poem by the Turkish poet and mystic Yunus Emre is addressed especially to the learned and pious, to whom the challenge to ‘identify Man as God’ would be Continue Reading →

The following poem is by the medieval Jewish poet Yehuda Halevi. For more about him, see this earlier post. His Thresholds Seek the Lord and His thresholds, my soul:     offer your Continue Reading →

Here are two verses from the highly respected patron saint of Kashmir, Nuruddin Rishi. For more about him, see this earlier post. Remove the rust from your heart as if Continue Reading →

The following verses are from the Intimate Conversations of Khwajah Abdullah Ansari. For more about him and this work, see this previous post. O God,When I look upon you,I see Continue Reading →

Yunus Emre (1238–1320 CE) was a Turkish mystic and highly esteemed folk-poet. Little seems to be recorded of his life, but his poems, written in early Turkish, have had a Continue Reading →

The following poem presents in a very musical form the contrast between the way of piety and the state of Divine intoxication. The ‘Saqi’ referred to in the third verse Continue Reading →

For more about the 11th c. Persian Sufi and poet Omar Khayyam, see this earlier post. Understand that you will be severed from your soul.     You will be annihilated at the Continue Reading →

Jamgon Kongtrul (1813-1899 CE) was a Tibetan Buddhist student and scholar who trained deeply and wrote prolifically. By the age of thirty, he had received teaching and empowerment from sixty Continue Reading →

The Persian Sufi poet Omar Khayyam (1048-1031? CE) is mostly known – and largely misunderstood – through the paraphrasal translations of the Victorian writer Edward Fitzgerald, which portray him as Continue Reading →

The following passage by Al-Ghazali is taken from his book Love, Longing, Intimacy and Contentment. For more about Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali, see this earlier post. When love overwhelms, it irresistibly Continue Reading →