🕊️ Beyond Thought: Rumi’s Call to Holy Madness
@admin
Introduction
There are moments when the mind becomes the veil, not the light.
Rumi, in this fierce and ecstatic ghazal, invites the seeker to stop thinking so much. He challenges the intellect’s constant questioning, warning that thought, if not guided by love, turns into oil feeding the fire …
🌙 “When Light Fades: Hafez and the Midnight of Separation”
This ghazal is one of Hafez’s most heart-wrenching meditations on separation, memory, and the soul’s exhaustion in love.
بی مِهرِ رُخَت روزِ مرا نور نماندست
وز عمر، مرا جز شبِ دیجور نماندست
هنگامِ وداعِ تو ز بس گریه که کردم
دور از رخِ تو، چشمِ مرا نور نماندست
می‌رفت …
Burned to Nothing: Attar’s Song of Annihilation
There are poems that whisper, and there are poems that consume.
This ghazal by Attar of Nishapur does not whisper; it burns.
It is not a prayer spoken in calm devotion, but a cry from within the flame itself; the voice of one who has already given everything, even the …
The Hidden Treasury of Pain: A Reflection on Khaqani’s Ghazal
There are some poets whose words feel carved from the bone of longing itself; their verses bleed, ache, and shimmer all at once. Khaqani Shirvani is one such poet. His ghazals are not simply expressions of love; they are storms of anguish, flashes of metaphysical fire that turn pain into …
In the Tavern of Nothingness: A Reflection on ʿErāqī’s Ghazal of Annihilation and Awakening
This is a beautiful ghazal by ʿErāqī (Iraqi) and it is one of the most profound expressions of the Sufi journey from selfhood to annihilation, from worship to wonder, from reason to rapture.
مست خراب یابد هر لحظه در خرابات
گنجی که آن نیابد صد پیر در مناجات
خواهی که …
The Mirror of the Beloved: A Reflection on Hafez’s Ghazal
Hafez speaks like someone who has lived inside a single, impossible longing and learned to name every shade of it. In this ghazal he turns the language of desire into a lens: every glance, every wound, every quiet absence becomes a mirror that reflects something larger than the beloved; the …
The Hidden Market of the Soul: A Reflection on Rumi’s Ghazal
Beautiful ghazal of Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Balkhi) is among his most mystical and layered. It moves between cosmic vision and intimate yearning, between the night of separation and the dawn of awakening.
بیا کامشب به جان بخشی به زلف یار می‌ماند
جمال ماه نورافشان بدان رخسار می‌ماند
به گرد چرخ …
The Cupbearer of Bewilderment: A Reflection on Saadi Shirazi’s Ghazal
This ghazal by Saadi Shirazi is a luminous example of how the Persian masters weave together sensual beauty and spiritual symbolism until the two become indistinguishable.
چه دل‌ها بردی ای ساقی به ساق فتنه‌انگیزت
دریغا بوسهْ چندی بر زنخدان دلاویزت
خدنگ غمزه از هر سو نهان انداختن تا کی
سپر …