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Haci Bektas Veli and the Cem Ceremony
By The Wise Sufi• October 20, 2019The Perfect Man said to have come to Anatolia in the form of a dove… The philosophy still kept alive in his Cem Ceremonies The…
Yunus Emre “Art of Being Perfect Man”
By The Wise Sufi• October 20, 2019In Sufism and other mystical currents, man in his normal state is man in name only. He resembles a treadmill pony whose eyes are blinkered…
Mevlana and The Whirling Dance
By The Wise Sufi• October 20, 2019There is such an ecstasy in the submission and orphan-like leaning on the right arm of the Mevlevi dervish performing the whirling dance. The whirling…
The Path of Amazement
By Seyyid Seyfullah Nizamoglu• October 19, 2019(Seyyid Seyfullah Nizamoglu was a leader of the Helveti Sufi order. His devotional poems range from folk to classical styles. The title Seyyid indicates he…But This World Cannot Compass Me
By Imadeddin Nasimi• October 19, 2019(Seyid İmadeddin Nesimi, (died c. 1418, Aleppo, Syria), mystical poet of the late 14th and early 15th centuries who wrote in Turkish, Persian, and Arabic.)…The Path of the Beautiful
By Aşık Ali İzzet• October 19, 2019(At a young age, Ali Izzet became an asik or ashik — a wandering minstrel who travels throughout the country composing and singing songs, accompanied…
Selected Poems from the Divani Shamsi Tabriz
By Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi• October 19, 2019O thou who art my soul’s comfort in the season of sorrow, O thou who art my spirit’s treasure in the bitterness of dearth! That which the…Seeking the Source
By Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi• October 19, 2019a voice out of this world calls on our souls not to wait any more get ready to move to the original home your real…Let Them Have Paradise
By Yunus Emre• October 19, 2019My eyes exist to see You. My hands exist to reach You. Today I set my life on your Path — Tomorrow I will find…
I Made My Intellect A Friend to Me
By Kul Himmet• October 19, 2019(Kul Himmet was born in central Turkey. His poetry was very influential in the Alevi-Bektashi Sufi tradition.) I made my intellect a friend to me…
Now No Trace Remains
By Niyazi Misri• October 19, 2019(Muhammad Niyazi al-Misri was born in Malatya, Turkey, to a devout family. In the mid-1600s, Niyazi Misri became the spiritual leader of the Istanbul Tekke…
What a Human Is, Now I Know
By Muhyiddin Abdal• October 19, 2019(Muhyiddin Abdal was a Bektashi Sufi poet from the Balkans under Ottoman (Turkish) rule. He is said to have lived a long life and traveled…
