Browse 84 quotes about Sufi Poetry.
“Night brings light,
Injury brings elixir.
Gale delivers gallantry,
Clouds deliver character.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“If you must love, love without any agenda,
If they love you back, your heart grows softer,
If they break you, your heart grows stronger,
Either way, in act of love there is no failure.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Are you in love?
Yes.
Are you in pain?
Always.
Are you happy?
Always.
In awe they ask me,
how can you be all at once!
I smile, and respond,
because I am alive.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Heart breaking is heart in making,
Wounds bleeding are wonders in making.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Love is the bane (The Sonnet)
Love is the boon,
Love is the bane.
Love is relief,
Love is the pain.
From love will come your troubles,
From love will rise your answer.
You'll fail in love, you'll fly in love,
In love's insanity your sight will clear.
Love is torture,
Love is disaster.
Love exposes the counterfeits,
While it purifies the lover.
In a world run by calculating coldness,
be the anomaly of love insensible.
Cure for this anemic world, is your love impossible.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Love is the boon,
Love is the bane.
Love is relief,
Love is the pain.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Sensible Love Sonnet
A heart measurable is no heart at all,
For a heart that expands not, is dead.
Love sensible is no love at all,
Love that makes sense is love of the dead.
Raise your head, reach out with heart,
And the whole world will fall at your feet.
Better senseless in love than loveless in logic,
Heartiness is no forte of the intellectual elite.
It is far better to fall in love and suffer,
Than to spend your life as a farmer awaiting rain.
Scars of love are not scars but the elixir of life,
Life without such suffering is a life gone in vain.
Regret not that you suffer in love, regret if you don't.
I'd give up all my brains for a moment of love's angst.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“Fortune without love is sheer curse.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“To Seduce You With Looks (The Sonnet)
I haven't come to seduce you with looks,
I have come to overwhelm you with love.
I haven't come to break your door by force,
I’ve come to charm it open with my mind’s touch.
I haven't come to bring you worldly riches,
But to offer you the garland of my heart.
I haven't come to usher you with complements,
I’ve come to celebrate you, tearing myself apart.
I haven't come to count the benefits of bond,
I’ve come to make you lose count of your wounds.
I haven't come to feel butterflies in my stomach,
But to fight the world, helping you break all rules.
Let me burn to ashes time and time again,
So I may remove the shadows from your life's lane.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“Love alone can explain love, freedom alone can explain freedom, kindness alone can explain kindness, affection alone can explain affection.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“All crowns come from "once upon a pain".”
Source: Sapionova: 200 Limericks for Students
“When your heart breaks, let it break,
Don't try to resist the shattering pieces.
It is from the abyss of burning misery,
Greatness emerges as phoenix from the ashes.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“How do we erase phobia from the world? First make a name for yourself, then associate that name to everything the world is ignorantly afraid of. In a pavlovian world where rating-hungry separatist media has conditioned the people to subconsciously relate every act of terror to a specific community, use your life to decondition the world - stand as the first human who is not afraid of humankind. That's why I say - I am a muslim poet, a humanitarian scientist, a latin lover, and an advaitin monk - I am an alternate dimension - an immeasurable dimension - where human oneness takes preference over animal separateness.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“I am a muslim poet, a humanitarian scientist, a latin lover, and an advaitin monk - I am an alternate dimension - an immeasurable dimension - where human oneness takes preference over animal separateness.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“We learnt how to fly like birds,
We learnt how to swim like fish,
Yet we haven't learnt to love like human.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Faith is subordinate to love,
Philosophy is subordinate to love,
Science is subordinate to love.
Until you feel it in your bones,
You've got plenty dust to wash off.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“Helper is Herald (The Sonnet)
Every peacemaker is muslim,
Every lover is christian.
Every helper is buddhist,
Every lifter is human.
Every lovenut is sufi,
Every braveheart is latin.
Every collectivist is jew,
Every secularist is advaitin.
All labels are futile,
If there's no substance underneath.
Focus on substance as a whole being,
Leave the labeling to the elite.
The helper is the herald,
the lifter is the light.
In a world with double vision,
selflessness is the only sight.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“I am not a writer, writers have limits, I have none, I only have responsibility, the responsibility to unite the world.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“It doesn't help to whine about the obvious, when the candle of love is burning low. What is needed is that you burn your heart, and make a pyre out of its sacrificial glow”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Only kafir is one without kindness.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Love is but a record of time,
Time is but a record of love.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“All time is illusion, unless it's a record of love. Life is but illusion, till it's an instrument of love.”
Source: The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo
“All time is illusion, unless it's a record of love.”
Source: The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo
“My love isn't hip, my love isn't pop.
My love isn't sold at pharmacy countertop.
I am too gone in love to look for pride,
Disreputation can't pierce my stubborn hide.
Bonkers I yell my heart out from the rooftop.”
Source: Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion
“How long will you chase love stories!
Unfold your own tales of tenacity.
How long will you glorify the fictitious rose,
overlooking those underneath your nose!
When will you nurture your own little nursery!”
Source: Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion
“Do you have any idea,
how love works?
Me neither.
Think not how love works,
Just give up, and let love work you.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Beyond the dead and the undead,
there is a valley of life.
You shall find me there,
where neither happiness nor misery,
but love is the measure of life.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Let love be the better name of sanity.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“Love, Latitude, Longitude (The Sonnet)
Love knows no latitude,
Love knows no longitude.
Love only knows to be,
Annihilated in servitude.
Love knows no aptitude,
Love knows no sanctitude.
Love only knows to give,
And wind up a destitute.
A destitute lover is wealthier,
Than a loveless billionaire.
Prison of gold is still a prison,
Our own greed makes us prisoner.
Eyes off the gold and hands on the heart!
Thus we shall wipe out all the world's dirt.”
Source: Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability
“Loveburnt (The Sonnet)
Jungle creatures look beautiful,
When they are in a habitat that's natural.
The human mind is beautiful when,
Mind and muhabbet are indistinguishable.
Don’t go about looking for your phone,
To google the meaning of muhabbet.
It's just a term for the timeless force of love,
The force at the core of all civilized sentience.
You can't force love, all you can do is,
Be vulnerable and reach out despite your insecurity.
Whether the person of your heart responds back,
Is not in your hands, but a matter of cosmic serendipity.
You may burn in the inferno of hate and fear all you want.
Bearing all snowstorm I stand unbent, ready to be loveburnt.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Broken (The Sonnet)
The most effective people,
On earth are all broken.
The people with most excellence,
Are all broken.
There is no excellence without brokenness,
For brokenness builds character.
Broken, and in agony, that's how we grow,
One who knows pain knows to help another.
Pain is not our enemy,
Pain is what keeps us alert.
To avoid pain is to avoid growth,
To avoid pain is to keep the heart shut.
Embrace pain, and pain will have no hold over you.
Once accepted, in brokenness you'll find yourself anew.”
Source: Bulldozer on Duty
“If pain delivers sentience,
Give me all the pain of the cosmos!
If tragedy transforms animal to human,
Let all tragedy befall my shoulders!
If darkness makes the sun bright,
Let my life stay engulfed in ominosity.
Let the world know me from my triumphs,
While I know myself from my tragedies.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“Time tells nothing, only tears do.
Time heals nothing, only tears do.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“Patience is best in every case,
For in this sentence is much meaning.
Patience giveth thee thy desire,
It relieveth thee from pain and misfortune.
Patience is the key of the door of thine aspirations”
Source: Sadi's Scroll of Wisdom
“You Are The Universe (The Sonnet)
You don't carry the torch, you are the torch.
You don't build the bridge, you are the bridge.
You don't pave the way, you are the way.
You don't make peace, you are the peace.
You don't build the future, you are the future.
You don't build civilization, you are civilization.
You don't serve the society, you are the society.
You don't work for reform, you are reformation.
You don't walk the path, you are the path.
You don't lift humanity, you are the humanity.
You don't make progress, you are the progress.
You don't serve the community, you are community.
You don't live in the universe, you are the universe.
Dimension destiny unfolds only in the human heart.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Give up your chase of goldmine,
Labor in the caverns of soulmine.
You shall be rich where it really counts,
Beyond the dreams of animalkind.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Burn my friend, burn,
Burn so bright that
the sun gets fried!
Shine my friend, shine,
Shine so bright that
Rudolf goes blind!
Smile my friend, smile,
Smile so pure that
flowers shy away.
Love my friend, love,
Love so drunk that
Rumi himself lays the way.
Fly my friend, fly,
Fly so fearless that
Tagore himself honors you.
Live my friend, live,
Live so unchained that
time makes gospel of you.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“THE DANCE OF ANGELS
Suzy Kassem
He spins and spins and spins
To remove all three layers of him
And with devout discipline
He spirals to ignite the light within.
He becomes a part
Of the solar system
And spirals to its cosmic hymn.
His soul transcends through
The mouth of God
To join the source
Of everything.
He turns and turns and turns
To open up windows to the universe
And with each circle of love he twirls
The love in his heart
Radiates and bursts.
His thirst for a meeting with the divine
Has been his only quest since birth,
And while rotating like the hand of time
He sings the 'AH' of an angel's verse.
As he turns and turns and turns
A million emotions and vibrations submerge
A luminous spectacle worth a million candles,
The Sufi dancer is poetry without
Words.
THE DANCE OF ANGELS by Suzy Kassem”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“I am infinite, I am unbound -
Come, steal all I've got,
strip me of all my legacy!
I started out as a vagabond,
I'll gladly perish in vagabondcy.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Day and night, night and day,
This moment now,
And every moment far away,
Love each and love all,
Save love there's no other way.
Ain't enough to be born a human,
To find life we gotta give our life away.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Where there is heart, there is hayat,
Heartless hayat is no hayat.
Call it hayat, life, or call it vida,
All of it begins across divisive dirt.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“Sanity is poison on the fabric of love,
Insanity is impediment to our luminescence.
Beyond the squabbles of infantile dualities,
Come and meet me at the confluence of sentience.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“Every peacemaker is muslim, every lover is christian, every helper is buddhist.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“The Price I Pay (The Sonnet)
I spent my life in the depth of heart,
So my social skills are a little lacking.
Either they want me to be deep always,
Or they simply call me rather cheesy.
Whenever I try small talking as human,
I fail and fail again most spectacularly.
That's the price I pay for being your rock,
A timeless pillar unfit for warmth and amity.
Mine is not to ask why, mine is to do or die,
A path in which I turned my life into an idea.
Still it'd be nice to be treated as a human,
It'd be nice to feel the gentleness of another.
There is no greatness without weakness.
Greats must persevere no matter the coldness.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Honor He Wrote Sonnet 75
Let me hold your hand,
Let me be your home.
Here, take my heart,
Heart to heart life is honed.
There is no I, only Us,
There is no Us, only I.
Sounds confusing, right!
Because Love is across all Us and I.
In love all of me is you,
In love all of you is me.
In love it's all messed up,
The sweetest mess we could ever be.
So come, let's be messed up together.
Perhaps then things might get a little clear.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Love Logic Intention (The Drunken Sonnet)
Love that keeps you sober is no love,
There is no soldier only drunken lover.
A thousand dazzling Vegas turn bleak,
When the soul shines with love's labor.
For once, let go of all judgment my friend,
Wipe out all cynicism from your core.
Close your eyes and look with your heart,
Either we are lovers or at death's door.
Nutty logic makes nice machines,
Nutty love makes a good society.
Scars of love add definition to life,
Tears of a lover are diamonds of divinity.
Right world is the result of right intention.
If you want light, burn, burn 'n burn again.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“I'm No Poet (The Sonnet)
I thought I could bear the title poet,
But as it turns out, I cannot.
I can barely bear the title of scientist,
Let alone adding another next to it.
Each title feels like a burden herculean,
My heart cannot function with such burden.
If I am to create works of life and wholeness,
I must be free from titles, sane and insane.
My ideas are not born of mere thought,
If they were, there wouldn't be any torment.
My work comes from a land beyond labels,
A place deeper than thought can penetrate.
So you may call me whatever you like.
In my mind, I am but a nameless light.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Handcrafted Humanity Sonnet 12
Here are some words born of narrowness,
Activist, woke, religious, atheist,
Socialist, communist, capitalist, conservative,
Intellectual, intelligent, classy, elitist,
Educated, learned, well-versed, sound-mind,
Traditional, old-fashioned, spiritual, altruistic,
Empiricist, Existentialist, rationalist, freethinker,
Godly, compassionate, selfless and mystic.
I refuse to be defined by any of them,
None of them can explain my true sentiment.
I may advocate for the good within each of them,
But I refuse to give any of them exclusive endorsement.
All these words are too puny to define my identity.
My name is human, my heart contains entire humanity.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“I have loved in life and I have been loved.
I have drunk the bowl of poison from the hands of love as
nectar, and have been raised above life’s joy and sorrow.
My heart, aflame in love, set afire every heart that came in
touch with it.
My heart has been rent and joined again;
My heart has been broken and again made whole;
My heart has been wounded and healed again;
A thousand deaths my heart has died, and thanks be to love, it
lives yet.
I went through hell and saw there love’s raging fire, and I
entered heaven illumined with the light of love.
I wept in love and made all weep with me;
I mourned in love and pierced the hearts of men;
And when my fiery glance fell on the rocks, the rocks burst
forth as volcanoes.
The whole world sank in the flood caused by my one tear;
With my deep sigh the earth trembled, and when I cried aloud
the name of my beloved, I shook the throne of God in
heaven.
I bowed my head low in humility, and on my knees I begged
of love,
“Disclose to me, I pray thee, O love, thy secret.”
She took me gently by my arms and lifted me above the earth,
and spoke softly in my ear,“My dear one, thou thyself art love, art lover, and thyself art
the beloved whom thou hast adored.”
COMPLETE SAYINGS , 693”
Source: The Heart of Sufism: Essential Writings of Hazrat Inayat Khan
“Each image painted
on the canvas of existence
is the form
of the artist himself.
Eternal Ocean
spews forth new waves.
„Waves“ we call them;
but there is only the Sea.
(p. 77)”
Source: Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes