Date: April 25, 2019 6:53 amPublished By:sufiadmin
Die Before You Die Ironic, but one of the most intimate acts of our body is death. So beautiful appeared my death – knowing who then I would kiss, I died a thousand times before I died. “Die before you die,” said the Prophet Muhammad. Have wings that feared ever touched the Sun? I was… View Article
Date: October 4, 2018 9:04 amPublished By:sufiadmin
OUR BEAUTY Live with dignity, women, live with dignity, men, Few things will more enhance our beauty as much. ~ Rabia al-Adawiyyah _____ From ‘Love Poems from God’ translated by Daniel Ladinsky. Rabia al-Adawiyyah of Basra, Iraq was a famous Sufi Saint, who was noted for her asceticism and many legends have been told… View Article
Date: July 12, 2018 6:44 amPublished By:sufiadmin
Why All This Talk Why all this talk of the Beloved, Music and dancing. And Liquid ruby-light we can lift in a cup? Because it is low tide, A very low tide in this age And around most hearts. We are exquisite coral reefs, Dying when exposed to strange Elements. God is the wine-ocean we… View Article
Date: May 31, 2018 9:28 amPublished By:sufiadmin
When the Curtain Falls Drunk by you, from the goblet and wine I am free. Captured by you, from the seed and snare I am free. You are my goal in the Kaaba and the idol temple, Otherwise, from both of these places I am free. The primordial secrets neither you know nor I. The… View Article
Date: April 5, 2018 9:53 pmPublished By:sufiadmin
As Shams was to Me A sheep who had just lost her lamb was in grief, and the fullness of milk throbbed heavy within. And she prayed the best she could, in her sheep soul, for help. Soon after that, she came across a lion cub, all alone and near dying. Although the scent of… View Article
Date: January 4, 2018 7:34 amPublished By:sufiadmin
Beloved When we were asleep in the non-existence of before the beginning, before the coming of the regions, before the erection of this turquoise-domed palace of heavens, Your lovers were seared by Your firebrand in absentia, Beloved. – Shaykh Abu Said Abul-Khayr. _____ From the Book, ‘Nobody, Son of Nobody, Poems of Shaikh Abu-Saeed… View Article
