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SIGNIFICANCE OF SUFI POETRY

Sufi  path is a love-oriented path serving as a bridge between the creation and the  Creator, while at the same time conveying a message that there exists no bridge  between the creation and Creator. The Creator and the creation exist like two  circles where centers meet without touching the peripheries. 

To  the Sufi, Allah is more of a Beloved than a Creator. A Sufi strives to lose  himself in love to find the Beloved just as a shade loses itself in order to  find the light; hence all of his actions are directed to please Allah. This is  how, an unusual relationship exist between the lover and the Beloved giving  rise to subtlest of feelings, at times in the form of poetic utterances for  expressing inexplicable. Thus, poetry of the Sufis is meaningful not only as pieces  of praiseworthy literature but provides a treasure of aesthetics embedded in  metaphors and similes for the spiritual progress of disciples too. It is like  drawing a map of love through the poetic verses, where whole universe can be  found at the right moment. Such poetry is not only read and shared in the Sufi  ceremonies, but also is an integral part of Sema/Qawwali i.e the Sufi music. A disciple under  the supervision of Shaykh, while  listening to the poetry in sema, gets  in tune with the soul of creativity that gives rise to the ecstatic songs of  love and gets colored in the same color rising to a higher spiritual state finding unity in diversity and divinity in humanity.

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  • INTRODUCTION
    • THE SUFI PATH
    • TAUHEED - UNITY OF BEING
    • TASAWWUF - FROM AN ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE
    • THE SUFI SHAYKH
    • SPIRITUAL PRACTICES
    • SULUK - THE SPIRITUAL JOURNEY
  • BIOGRAPHIES
    • HAZRAT SHAH MEERZA AGHA MOHAMMAD (R. A.)
    • HAZRAT DR. SHAH MEERZA MURTUZA HUSSAIN (R. A.)
    • HAZRAT DR.SHAH MEERZA IKHTIYAR HUSSAIN Kaif Niazi (R. A.)
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    • Books of Hazrat Dr. Shah Meerza Ikhtiyar Hussain Kaif Niazi (R. A.)
    • Nawa-e-Sarosh >
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    • ARTICLES >
      • RELIGION: BLESSING OR A CURSE
      • FREEDOM
      • THE UNQUESTIONED ANSWER
      • QUINTESSENCE OF LIFE
    • POETRY >
      • INTRODUCTION TO SUFI POETRY
      • SIGNIFICANCE OF SUFI POETRY
      • METAPHORS USED IN SUFI POETRY
      • FORMS OF POETRY USED BY THE SUFIS
      • BY HAZRAT MEERZA SHAH AGHA MOHAMMAD R.A.
      • BY HAZRAT MEERZA MUNIR AHMED NIZAMI
      • BY HAZRAT DR. SHAH MEERZA IKHTIYAR HUSSAIN R.A.- KAIF >
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