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SUFI SHAYKH

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The Sufi way is a love-oriented path. Anyone can taste that fire of love in the poetry, music and dance created by the Sufis like Rumi, Hafiz, Jami, Iraqi and Khusro to name a few. The Sufi way has given birth to a culture of beautiful human beings with hearts of pure love and a highly developed aesthetic sense. The Shaykh helps his disciples to give birth to a true heart and nourishes him with spiritual milk like a mother. The role of a Shaykh is extremely important in forming a milieu of love in the life of his disciples, where gradually they are pulled to the level of “Nafs al Mutma’inna” (the contented self) as explained below. The Shaykh’s physical presence exists like a flame of love for his disciples and this is how when any soul catches fire from that flame, an unknown fragrance materializes on this very earth with a song of its own.  As a flower takes little from the earth in comparison to what it gives back in the form of emanating radiant colours and soft ripples of scent, likewise such a soul enriches the universe with his/her presence and adds a new dimension to life before departing for an unknown destination.


A beautiful poem by Sultan Bahu (RA) sheds light on this relationship of a disciple with his Shaykh:

Allah is like the jasmine plant which the preceptor planted in my heart–O Hu
By water   and the gardener of negation and affirmation, it remained near the
jugular vein and everywhere     – O Hu
It spread fragrance inside when it approached the time of blossoming – O Hu
May the efficient preceptor live long, says BAHU, who planted this plant – O Hu

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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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  • PUBLICATIONS
    • 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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      • BY MEERZA HASAN NIZAMI-RUMI >
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