Sufi Poetry Quotes

“First the fish needs to say: Somethin' ain't right about this CAMEL ride...and I'm feeling so damned THIRSTY.”
― - Hafiz 1320-1389

“How do we erase phobia from the world? First make a name for yourself, then associate that name to everything the world is ignorantly afraid of. In a pavlovian world where rating-hungry separatist media has conditioned the people to subconsciously relate every act of terror to a specific community, use your life to decondition the world - stand as the first human who is not afraid of humankind. That's why I say - I am a muslim poet, a humanitarian scientist, a latin lover, and an advaitin monk - I am an alternate dimension - an immeasurable dimension - where human oneness takes preference over animal separateness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Ramadan is resurrection of a promise divine,
Festival of one people is festival of humankind.
Ramadan is the end of all feelings unkind,
Ramadan is a human being a human's lifeline.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Rahmat is an act of azan,
Rahmat is what makes us holy.
When Rahmat and Azan manifest as one,
That's the beginning of Ramazan,
Christmas and Deepavali.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“I am infinite, I am unbound -
Come, steal all I've got,
strip me of all my legacy!
I started out as a vagabond,
I'll gladly perish in vagabondcy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“I can't be taught to love you.
I can't be taught to cry.
And I can't be taught to stay here if I was born to die.”
― Baraka Blue, PROOF: The Art of Remembrance

“If you must love, love without any agenda,
If they love you back, your heart grows softer,
If they break you, your heart grows stronger,
Either way, in act of love there is no failure.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Give up your chase of goldmine,
Labor in the caverns of soulmine.
You shall be rich where it really counts,
Beyond the dreams of animalkind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Platonic, tectonic, animatronic, puritanic,
If you can't think of love without
thinking heavy machinery,
it's neither faith nor facts you lack,
what you lack is dignity and decency.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“You are my Mecca,
You are my Bethlehem,
You are my El Dorada,
You are my Washington.

Istanbul to Alpha Centauri,
Tu sonrisa es mi cura.
California to Kanyakumari,
Sen gülünce ben fakira.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“I am a muslim poet, a humanitarian scientist, a latin lover, and an advaitin monk - I am an alternate dimension - an immeasurable dimension - where human oneness takes preference over animal separateness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Time is a slimy wimy thing,
Life is a blessy messy thing.
Love is a happy crappy thing,
Mind is a mighty fighty thing.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sapionova: 200 Limericks for Students

“All crowns come from "once upon a pain".”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sapionova: 200 Limericks for Students

“If pain delivers sentience,
Give me all the pain of the cosmos!
If tragedy transforms animal to human,
Let all tragedy befall my shoulders!

If darkness makes the sun bright,
Let my life stay engulfed in ominosity.
Let the world know me from my triumphs,
While I know myself from my tragedies.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Night brings light,
Injury brings elixir.
Gale delivers gallantry,
Clouds deliver character.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“My love isn't hip, my love isn't pop.
My love isn't sold at pharmacy countertop.
I am too gone in love to look for pride,
Disreputation can't pierce my stubborn hide.
Bonkers I yell my heart out from the rooftop.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“How long will you chase love stories!
Unfold your own tales of tenacity.
How long will you glorify the fictitious rose,
overlooking those underneath your nose!
When will you nurture your own little nursery!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“How does the bird come and go,
In and out of this bodily cage!
So long as you nourish it with love,
Who cares about some mythical fate!

Cages are born of dust,
In dust cages will wither.
Yet you sob in love of cage,
Oblivious to the endangered flier!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Person is the ailment,
Person is the treatment.
Person alive in act of love,
is ointment to all derangement.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Stand undaunted as divine prophecy,
Resuscitated by the sight of life.
Seer you are, seeker you are.
Seek no more, for you are the light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“For one who lives with kindness, everyday is Ramadan.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Burn my friend, burn,
Burn so bright that
the sun gets fried!
Shine my friend, shine,
Shine so bright that
Rudolf goes blind!

Smile my friend, smile,
Smile so pure that
flowers shy away.
Love my friend, love,
Love so drunk that
Rumi himself lays the way.

Fly my friend, fly,
Fly so fearless that
Tagore himself honors you.
Live my friend, live,
Live so unchained that
time makes gospel of you.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“The ruby wine in the golden goblet
Is soul-inspiring, as it were a beautiful pearl.
Welcome is the fire of desire to those inspired with love!
Welcome are the delightful pains of the lords of love!”
― Saadi, Sadi's Scroll of Wisdom

“Patience is best in every case,
For in this sentence is much meaning.
Patience giveth thee thy desire,
It relieveth thee from pain and misfortune.
Patience is the key of the door of thine aspirations”
― Saadi, Sadi's Scroll of Wisdom

“The Islam I live is a walking azaan,
living call to tolerance and acceptance.
Muslim poet am I, from the valley of love,
The Islam I live is the end of violence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“The Islam I live speaks of love,
The Islam I live is gentle as dove.
The Islam I live claims no convert,
The Islam I live warms all in hug.

The Islam I live transcends doctrine,
The Islam I live transcends the mosque.
The Islam I live holds no faith foreign,
The Islam I live finds good in every walk.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Merhem-e Manavta (Sufi Sonnet)

Where there is no muslim, non-muslim -
where there is no believer, non-believer -
where all distances are conquered by heart,
outgrowing myths one emerges Merhem-e Manavta.

Compulsion of religion is a thing of the past,
conversion of faith, trivial as changing clothes;
mark of a holy being is not belief, but behavior -
clothes, creed, all wither, not character's glow.

Christian on Sunday, Atheist on Monday,
Buddhist on Tuesday, Sikh on Wednesday,
Hindu on Thursday, Muslim on Friday,
Jewish on Saturday, try the rest the next day.

Love speaks louder than faith,
kindness speaks louder than scripture.
Service is sanctity, my Eid al-Adha -
tolerance is my azaan, my Eid al-Fitr.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Where there is no muslim, non-muslim - where there is no believer, non-believer - where all distances are conquered by heart, outgrowing myths one emerges Merhem-e Manavta.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Service is sanctity, my Eid al-Adha - tolerance is my azaan, my Eid al-Fitr.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“I am a muslim poet, yet I refuse to hate my brother from another mother - like many streams finally meet in the sea, we are all born of nature and ultimately disperse into nature.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop