Sufi poetry has been written in many languages, both for private devotional reading and as lyrics for music played during worship, or dhikr. Themes and styles established in Arabic poetry and mostly Persian poetry have had an enormous influence on Sufi poetry throughout the Islamic world.

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  • Sufi poetry has been written in many languages, both for private devotional reading and as lyrics for music played during worship, or dhikr. Themes and styles established in Arabic poetry and mostly Persian poetry have had an enormous influence on Sufi poetry throughout the Islamic world. Some of the most famous works, both poetry and prose, in Sufi literature are: The Mathnawī and Diwan-e Shams-e Tabriz-i of Rūmī al-Buṣīrī's Qaṣīdat-ul-Burda Shaikh Abū Sa`īd Abū-l-Khair's Asrār-ut-Tawḥīd ("The Secrets of Unity") Farid al-Din Attar's The Conference of the Birds Ibn Arabi's Fuṣūṣ-ul-Ḥikam ("The Bezels of Wisdom") and Tarjuman al-Ashraq ("The Interpreter of Desires") Al-Ghazali's Kimiya-yi sa'ādat ("The Alchemy of Happiness") Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri's Dala’il al-Barakat Gohar Shahi's Turyaaq-e-Qulb ("Cure for Heart") Bahr-ul-Uloom Maulvi Abdul Qadeer Siddiqui Hasrat's "Kulliyyat-e-Hasrat" (Collection of Poetry in devotion to the Prophet and other Sufis).
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  • May 2009
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  • Sufi poetry has been written in many languages, both for private devotional reading and as lyrics for music played during worship, or dhikr. Themes and styles established in Arabic poetry and mostly Persian poetry have had an enormous influence on Sufi poetry throughout the Islamic world.
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  • Sufi poetry
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