But This World Cannot Compass Me
(Seyid İmadeddin Nesimi, (died c. 1418, Aleppo, Syria), mystical poet of the late 14th and early 15th…
(Seyid İmadeddin Nesimi, (died c. 1418, Aleppo, Syria), mystical poet of the late 14th and early 15th…
(At a young age, Ali Izzet became an asik or ashik — a wandering minstrel who travels…
O thou who art my soul’s comfort in the season of sorrow, O thou who art my…
a voice out of this world calls on our souls not to wait any more get ready…
My eyes exist to see You. My hands exist to reach You. Today I set my life…
(Kul Himmet was born in central Turkey. His poetry was very influential in the Alevi-Bektashi Sufi tradition.)…
(Muhammad Niyazi al-Misri was born in Malatya, Turkey, to a devout family. In the mid-1600s, Niyazi Misri…
(Muhyiddin Abdal was a Bektashi Sufi poet from the Balkans under Ottoman (Turkish) rule. He is said…
Our desert hath no bound, Our hearts and souls have no rest. World in world has ta’…
Oh! Supreme Lover! Let me leave aside my worries. The flowers are blooming with the exultation of…