Iqbal Qalander

کہاں سے سیکھی ہے تو نے اے اقبال یہ درویشی
کے چرچا ہے بادشاؤں میں تیری بے نیازی کا

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Celebrate! The month of fasting has come.

Celebrate! The month of fasting has come.
Pleasant journey to the one
Who is the company of the fasting.
I climbed the roof to see the Moon,
Because I really missed fasting
By heart and soul.
I lost my hat while looking at the Moon.
the Sultan of fasting made me drunk.
O Muslims, I have been drunk
since that day I lost my [...]

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A Few Gems from Shaykh Ahmad Sam’ani (ra)

I first encountered Shaykh Ahmad Sam’ani’s beautiful book on the Divine Names many years ago through an article by Prof. William Chittick written as a response to comments by Pope John Paul II that the God of Islam was distant and unloving (not his exact words). This is a common criticism/misunderstanding of many Christians who [...]

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Ajmer Sharif (may God increase its eminence)

Aasra hai ghareebon ka ghar aap ka
sajda gah e jahan sang e dar aap ka
hai nishan e Haram, hai zameen ka bharam
aastan aap ka Khawaja Hind ul Wali!

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Love for You Took Away My Rosary

Love for you took away my rosary and gave verses and songs; I
cried “No strength (save with God)” and repented oft, but my
heart did not heed.
At Love’s hand I became a singer of odes, hand-clapping; love
for you consumed reputation and shame and all that I possessed.
Once I was chaste and self-denying and firm-footed as a
mountain; [...]

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Champions in Nonexistence

Once again we have left our heart, intellect, and
spirit behind – the Friend has come into the midst and we
have disappeared.
We have turned back from annihilation and become
woven into subsistence; we have found the Traceless and
thrown away all traces.
Stirring up dust from the ocean and smoke from
the nine spheres, we have discarded Time, the earth, [...]

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A Reminder on the Importance of Suhba

1827- He narrated to me from Malik that it reached him  that Luqman al-Hakim counselled his son and said:, “My  son! Sit with the learned men and keep close to them.  Indeed Allah gives life to the hearts with the light of  wisdom as Allah gives life to the dead earth with the  abundant rain [...]

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A Glimpse of the Zawq of Pir Naseeruddin Naseer (ra)

This was a man of many colours and this is one of them.

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Gateway to Divine Mercy

This spells out the specific calling of this great wali of Allah (swt).

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Death Anniversary of Hz Allama (ra)

I was reminded by a fellow enthusiast that it being the 21st of April, it is Allama sahib’s death anniversary today. At the moment I’m not in a position to offer anything original but I thought I should do something to mark the day. So here is Ustad Nusrat singing his famous poem “khudi ka [...]

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