The Path of Amazement
(Seyyid Seyfullah Nizamoglu was a leader of the Helveti Sufi order. His devotional poems range from folk…
But This World Cannot Compass Me
(Seyid İmadeddin Nesimi, (died c. 1418, Aleppo, Syria), mystical poet of the late 14th and early 15th…
The Path of the Beautiful
(At a young age, Ali Izzet became an asik or ashik — a wandering minstrel who travels…
Selected Poems from the Divani Shamsi Tabriz
O thou who art my soul’s comfort in the season of sorrow, O thou who art my…
Seeking the Source
a voice out of this world calls on our souls not to wait any more get ready…
Let Them Have Paradise
My eyes exist to see You. My hands exist to reach You. Today I set my life…
I Made My Intellect A Friend to Me
(Kul Himmet was born in central Turkey. His poetry was very influential in the Alevi-Bektashi Sufi tradition.)…
Now No Trace Remains
(Muhammad Niyazi al-Misri was born in Malatya, Turkey, to a devout family. In the mid-1600s, Niyazi Misri…
What a Human Is, Now I Know
(Muhyiddin Abdal was a Bektashi Sufi poet from the Balkans under Ottoman (Turkish) rule. He is said…
Selected Poems from the Divani Shamsi Tabriz
Our desert hath no bound, Our hearts and souls have no rest. World in world has ta’…
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