Wealth and Life from Golestan by Saadi Shirazi
Saadi says: “Wealth exists for the comfort of life — not life for the accumulation of wealth.” Someone once asked a wise man, “Who is …
🕊️ Beyond Thought Rumi’s Call to Holy Madness
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 …
The Appearance of Piety from Golestan by Saadi Shirazi
One of the nobles once said to a pious man, “What do you think of that certain worshipper — the one people speak of mockingly …
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. Hafez Starts by: Without the radiance of …
Contentment and Fairness from Golestan by Saadi Shirazi
Saadi tells us: A beggar from the Maghreb — the western lands — was once standing among the cloth merchants of Aleppo. He cried out, …
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 …
The Dying Old Man from Golestan by Saadi Shirazi
Saadi writes: I was once in the Great Mosque of Damascus, engaged in discussion with a group of scholars, when a young man entered and …
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 …