Four Great Later Classic Sufi Master Poets: Selected Poems - download pdf or read online

4 nice LATER vintage SUFI grasp POETS

Shah Ni’mat’ullah, Jami, Dara Shikoh & Makhfi

***SELECTED POEMS***

Translation & creation Paul Smith

The nice Sufi ideal grasp Poets of the Later vintage Age (15th-17th century) have been uncomplicated and encouraging within the poetic different types of the ghazal, ruba’i, qasida and masnavi and different kinds in expressing their love for the Divine loved and their contempt for this global and its illusions and explaining the religious direction. listed below are countless numbers of gorgeous poems by means of them within the right shape and which means and biographies approximately them. Shah Ni’mat’ullah (1330-1431) was once the founding father of an order of Sufis. in addition to a Sufi grasp he used to be an outstanding poet later in his existence. He was once stimulated through Ibn ‘Arabi and Hafiz. His Divan comprises usually ghazals and ruba’is. Jami (1414-1493), is generally identified for his masterpiece seven masnavi epics. He additionally composed ghazals, rubai’s and different profound, mystical poems. Dara Shikoh (1615-1659) used to be the oldest son of Emperor Shah Jahan. He used to be a superb poet, having a power of Sufism to which he was once committed. Makhfi (1638-1702) used to be the gorgeous, gifted daughter of the stern Mughal Emperor, Aurangzeb. He imprisoned her for twenty years for her Sufi perspectives. Her over 550 ghazals and ruba’is in Persian are deep, non secular and now and then actually heartbreaking. advent: Sufis & Dervishes: Their paintings & Use of Poetry & a number of poetic varieties they used. Pages 526.

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“It isn't really a joke... the English model of the entire ghazals of Hafiz is a smart feat and of paramount value. i'm astonished.” Dr. Mir Mohammad Taghavi (Dr. of Literature) Tehran.
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Paul Smith is a poet, writer and translator of over one hundred thirty books of Sufi poets of the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu and different languages… together with Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, ‘Attar, Sana’i, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Lalla Ded, Iqbal and so forth, in addition to poetry, fiction, performs, biographies, children’s books and over a dozen screenplays.