Sufi poetry

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Sufi poetry has been written in many languages, both for private devotional reading and as lyrics for music played during worship, or dhikr. Themes and styles established in Arabic poetry and mostly Persian poetry have had an enormous influence on Sufi poetry throughout the Islamic world, and is often part of the Sufi music.

Some of the most famous works, both poetry and prose, in Sufi literature are:

• The Mathnawī and Diwan-e Shams-e Tabriz-i of Rūmī
• al-Buṣīrī's Qaṣīdat-ul-Burda
• Dīwān of Hāfez by Hafez
• Shaikh Abū Sa`īd Abū-l-Khair's Asrār-ut-Tawḥīd ("The Secrets of Unity")
• Farid al-Din Attar's The Conference of the Birds
• Ibn Arabi's Fuṣūṣ-ul-Ḥikam ("The Bezels of Wisdom") and Tarjuman al-Ashraq ("The Interpreter of Desires")
• Al-Ghazali's Kimiya-yi sa'ādat ("The Alchemy of Happiness")
• Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri's Dala’il al-Barakat
• Gohar Shahi's Turyaaq-e-Qulb ("Cure for Heart")
• Bahr-ul-Uloom Muhammad Abdul Qadeer Siddiqi Qadri Hasrat's "Kulliyyat-e-Hasrat" (Collection of Poetry in devotion to the Prophet and other Sufis).

Diwan-e-Akhtar by Hazrat Hakim Akhtar(Damat barkatuhum aaliya)

See also

• Sufism
• History of Sufism
• Islamic poetry
• Islamic music
• Persian literature

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