Hakim Luqman the Sage : Story from Shaykh Saadi’s Gulistan
Hakim Luqman was Wiseman who have been praised in Quran. Shaykh Saadi narrate a story of Hazrat Luqman that someone...
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The Hierarchy of Saints: In words of Mevlana Rumi
The Hierarchy of Saints: In Words of Mevlana Rumi [Masnavi Volume II, Verse 815] Once Rasoolallah’s [SAW] unmatched greatness is agreed. Hence if...
King Nausherwan Adil : Story from Shaykh Saadi Gulistan
Nausherwan Adil [Nausherwan the Just] is regarded as one of the most venerated kings of Persia. Once his courtier informed him of...
Hazrat Ali Hujwiri R.A. on Mushahadat and Mujahadat
Hazrat Ali Hujwiri on Hazrat Abu Bakr’s Mushahadat versus Hazrat Umar’s Mujahada CALIPH ABU BAKER R.A. is placed by the Sufi...
8 Amazing Qawwalis of Ustad Farid Ayaz Qawwal & Abu Muhammad Qawwal
Ustad Farid Ayaz and Ustad Abu Muhammad Qawwal performing in Basti Hazrat Nizamuddin, Delhi Dear Brother W, ...
Tere Ishq Nachaya Karke Thaiya Thaiya: Bulleh Shah Masterpiece
Tere Ishq Nachaya is regarded as Bulleh Shah best loved and most known poems. Bulleh Shah was of Syed...
Early Life of Mevlana Rumi
Rumi was born on September 30, 1207 at Balkh, in the Iranian region of Khorasan, part of the current territory...
Youth and Old Age: Kalam Hafiz Shirazi
I desire that destiny would end this havoc And give us lovers their due credit. In my youth, I had...
Ustad Mehmood Ghaznavi Sabri Qawwal – Letter by Wazir Dayers
Dear Brother W, Before I send you some more Qawwal Bachche qawwali I send you a number of pictures...
Story from Kashf ul Mahjoob by Hazrat Ali Hujwiri R.A.
In Kashf ul Mahjoob , Hazrat Ali Hujwiri R.A. narrates story of a pious women, who with her husband used to...
History of the Qawwal Bachchon ka Gharana: Letter by Wazir Dayers
Dear Brother W, Thanks for your kind reply. Since you don’t know Ustad Bahauddin Khan Qawwal, I hope...
You are me I am you: Verses by Baba Ravidass Sahib
Tohi mohi mohi tohi, Antar kaisa. Kanak katik jaltarang jaisa…. Translation You are me I am you what is...
Love cannot be explained: Rumi Quote
Love cannot be explained. Love can only be experienced. Love cannot be explained, Yet love explains everything. – Mevlana Rumi...
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Meets Javed Akhtar Sahib
In 1996, Nusrat Sahib traveled across the border to meet Javed Akhtar in Mumbai, which led to one of...
Moinuddin Chishti R.A. on Imam Hussain R.A.: Letter by Wazir Dayers
Dear Brother W, The first ten days of the month Muharram are a time of mourning the suffering and martyrdom...
Rumi on Imam Hassan and Hussain R.A.
Oh Murtaza of Love, My Shams Tabraiz, just look at me! I am like Hussain R.A., sitting in my own...
Gharib-o-Saada-ae-Rangeen hay Daastan-e-Haram: Iqbal’s praise of Imam Hussain R.A.
Gharib-o-Saada-ae-Rangeen hay Daastan-e-Haram Nihayet iski Hussain, ibtida hay Ismail. – Dr. Allama Iqbal The story of Kaaba remains straightforward,...
The Noor of Muhammad S.A.W. – Letter by Wazir Dayers
Dear Brother, At the end of the ālāp of the splendid naat “Ya Mustafa, Noor-ul-Huda, Sani Tera Koi...
A Princess and an Old Lady : Miniature Painting Lucknow
A PRINCESS AND AN OLD LADY Opaque watercolour on paper Provincial Mughal, probably Lucknow i c. 1760 The theme...
Smiling in Sunnah
“When you smile to your brother’s face, even it is charity [a good act].” – Prophet Muhammad S.A.W. Here...
