#sufiness

[dar-tariki-tariqat-99]

#burzum #sufiness #workingclasshero #me

[endtheidolindustry]

#it's me sufi :)

[timetravellingkitty]

TERRIBLE DAY FOR INDO-PAK RELATIONS

#rip #anjali chakra #sufi malik

[palipunk]

Listening to Qawwali music again and can’t help but think about Gaza’s Sufi community. May Allah protect all of them

#thinking of my baba who grew up with Palestinian Sufis around him as well. Palestinian Sufism is very often neglected

[creatinganewwlife]

There's something undeniably special about Kailash Kher's music, particularly the way he captures the essence of a woman's perspective in love. Listening to his songs feels like being truly seen and understood. The vulnerability, the intensity, the all-encompassing joy that comes with loving someone completely.

Thank you, Kailash Kher

You’re healing countless hearts:)

#kailash kher #teri deewani #desiblr #desi tag #desi tumblr #desi #sufi #sufi music #kailasa #bollywood songs #desi aesthetic #love #women in love #yearning

[metamorphesque]

But love unexplained is clearer.

Description of Love, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

#jalal ad-din muhammad rumi #poetry #love poems #quotes #literature #sufi poets #classic literature #poems #description of love

[beesgav]

real ones remember

#bionicle #matoran #oc #ocs #sufi #kabo #lego #bonkle #bonkles #digital #art #sketchbook #iniri #hikahim

[curtwilde]

The oldest Sufi shrine in Delhi has been demolished.

"The earliest Sufi Shrine in Delhi - belonging to a relative of Prithviraj Chauhan and dating from BEFORE the Turkish conquest - has been Demolished by the Delhi Development Authority in an "anti encroachment" drive.

In the late 12th century, a group of Afghan pastoralists, suddenly burst onto the world stage. In a matter of years, they toppled their rulers of Ghazni and seized major Persian cities like Herat, and then established the major Indian sultanate in Delhi.

We often think of this "Islamic invasion" as the start of the Muslim presence in India. Yet recent scholarship has shown that by the time of Ghori's conquest of Delhi, Muslims were already a central part of Indian society

Some of the earliest mosques are found in Kerala, dating from a few decades after the prophet Muhammad's death. Tamil Pallava, Chola and Pandya kings all built sizeable mosques

Delhi also had a single sufi shrine before the Afghan conquest - this one.

Until 31 January, when it was demolished, the shrine of Baba Haji Rozbih had been located by the Fateh Burj, or Victory Gate of Lal Kot. The grave next to it under a reddish Chador belongs to his female disciple Bibi. Bibi was said to be a close relative of Prithviraj Chauhan who embraced Islam under the aegis of Haji Rozbih.

This demolition is an UTTERLY MINDLESS LOSS and complete cultural desecration.

What's more the "anti encroachment" drive is apparently scheduled to include the Aashiq Allah Dargah dated to 1317AD which is where the great Punjabi Saint Baba Farid used to meditate, and his small 'chillagah' is still visible here.

Please do share and write about this so we can save what remains! "

- from the historian Sam Dalrymple .

...

This is the third Islamic structure to be demolished in Delhi this month. Isn't it funny how only certain structures are the victim of anti- encroachment drives? This is part of a planned programme by the current right-wing government of India that is violently islamophobic and wants to create a hindu ethnostate modeled after Israel.

#india #desi tumblr #desiblr #south asia #punjab #sufi #sufism #islam #delhi #new delhi #anti-hindutva #anti-bjp #islamophobia #anti hindutva #anti bjp

[loneberry]

"Attar is one of the greatest poets of the Persian language. Nonetheless, his popularity - both in Iran itself and in the West (Goethe, for example, touched on him only briefly in his West-Eastern Divan) - does not match that of Ferdowsi (d. 1020), Omar Khayyam (d. c.1132), Rumi, Saadi (d. 1292) or Hafiz (d. 1389); occasionally he is even omitted from the line of seven Persian poet-princes in favour of Jami (d. 1492). One pos­sible reason for this is that the composition of his poetry is too artful, too complex to be effective in the town squares and teahouses, while at the same time, many of his stories and figures may seem too coarse, too folk-like and too sarcastic to be at the forefront of the high spir­itual literature cultivated at courts in former times and in middle-class households today. Attar’s poetry, on the other hand, is far less stilted than that of most Persian poets but, rather, unadorned, clear and imme­diate. The pain it expresses is not spiritually filtered as in Rumi, far less metaphysically elevated than in Saadi, and not sublimated into pleasure as in Omar Khayyam - where Hafiz turns the earthly into the mystical, Attar strips mysticism down to its leaden, earthly foundation in order to scream his longing to the heavens." --Navid Kermani, The Terror of God: Attar, Job and the Metaphysical Revolt

.

I asked my professor which masnavi (Persian epic poem) he thinks is the greatest ever written. He replied, Rumi's Masnavi (the only masnavi Rumi wrote). Shock. How can there be a masnavi greater than Attar's Conference of the Birds? (There are 4 authentic Attar masnavis; sadly, as far as I know, Conference of the Birds is the only one that has been translated into English.) Reading through Rumi's masnavi I think I am still team Attar. It's Attar's coarseness I love--he is a poet of mad saints and freaks. In Rumi's Masnavi, the absence of a frame story and the pious/didactic tone is somewhat of a barrier for me. The pieces don't quite hang together, whereas Attar's Conference of the Birds is intricately structured--there are stories within stories within stories, each bird with its idiosyncratic psychology--a narrative arc that mirrors the journey of the soul across the seven valleys. But maybe there is a difference between reading a sufi text for its poetry rather than religious instruction, I don't know.

#attar #Rumi #persian poetry #poetry #literature #masnavi #Navid Kermani #islam #islamic mysticism #islamic literature #mysticism #sufism #sufi literature

[kaalbela]

In the 16th century in Punjab, Shah Hussain, a Sufi poet and mystic met and fell in love with a Hindu boy called named Madho Lal. Though gay marriage was not legal anywhere in the world before this century, Hussain and Madho defied social conventions and lived together for six years till Hussain's death in 1599. Hussain's poetry is significantly inspired by his relationship with Madho, with some poems addressed directly to him. After Hussain's death Madho continued to live close to where he was buried in present day Baghbanpura in Lahore, and was buried next to Hussain after his death. They continue to lie buried side by side in the same enclosure to this day, and the enclosure is named Hazrat Madho Lal Hussain, embodying one soul living in two bodies.

The annual celebration called Mela Chiraghan or Festival of Lights is held in March in Lahore in order to celebrate the love of Madho and Hussain as well as Hussain's poetry. It is unknown how the ritual was established, but it dates as far back as the the 18th century: there are records of Maharaja Ranjit Singh leading a barefooted procession from the Fort to the mausoleum for this celebration. At present, the festival is conducted over three days and attracts large crowds. Cotton-seed oil lamps are lighted in the streets and houses of the city. Devotees sing and dance and read Hussain's poetry in order to commemorate the triumph of tolerance over forces of bigotry.

#ots #gay history #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbt history #queer history #queer #mlm #punjab #sufi #lahore #pakistan #south asia #south asian #shah hussain #madho lal hussain #mela chiraghan #desi tumblr #desiblr #desi tag #south asian history

[wedarkacademia]

“I choose to love you in silence…

For in silence, I find no rejection,

I choose to love you in loneliness…

For in loneliness, no one owns you but me,

I choose to adore you from a distance…

For distance will shield me from pain,

I choose to kiss you in the wind…

For the wind is gentler than my lips,

I choose to hold you in my dreams…

For in my dreams, you have no end.”

― Rumi

#rumi #sufi #scholar #poet #dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #light academia #classic academia #classic literature #poetry #art academia #art #books #libraries #book quotes #literature quotes #deep quotes #life quotes #relatable quotes #bookblr #poetry quotes #lit

[maintohthakgayibhaishaab]

sufi cheating on anjali was not on my 2024 bingo card are you SERIOUSSSSS

#sufi #desi shit posting #queer tag #desi queer #desiblr #.txt

[ozgur-ce]

Aşk defteri sığmaz dostlar dergahına,

Cümle aşk yığılıp bargahına..

Yedi cehennem dayanamaz bir ah'ına,

Her ne eylesen, Aşık eyle ALLAH'ım... ❤️

Ahmet Yesevi Hz.

#tasavvuf #Kavramlar #Kadim gelecek #Sufizm #Sufi #Aşk #Spotify

[ramayantika]

Okay now what's the deal with hating on kathak for its connection with mughal history.

You don't even know a thing about dance but you got to hate it mindlessly

#i love the sentiment of having pride for our own indian culture art and traditions but not at the cost of #bringing down other cultures especially islamic #like this girl was doing kathak and mostly these so called traditional men commented pakistan bhejo yahan nahi chalta yeh sab #the social media trend of tum sufi hum hanuman chalisa #this is making you look just purely dumb #choice sunne ki and unch nich dikhane mein farak hai bhaiya #fr i myself listen to bhajans and stotram which doesn't make me superior to those listening to sufi #zara social media ke changul se bahar niklo tum saala divide and rule abhi bhi chal raha hai #dni pls aise hi tumblr anon hate aata hai

[kafi-farigh-yusra]

I once had thousands of desires. But in my one desire to know You, all else melted away.

~Rumi

#rumi #sufism #sufi #sufi wisdom #sufi quotes #desi tumblr #just desi things #desi larki #desi academia #life of a desi girl #shams tabrizi #allah #islam #islamic

[moishe-pipick]

Hz. Nuh (aws)

#noah's ark #Islam #Sufi