God in Sufism is referred to in three main terms, which are the Lover, Loved, and Beloved, with the last of these terms being often seen in Sufi poetry.

The saints of Sufism are infamous for being " drunk " due to their love of God ; hence, the constant reference to wine in Sufi poetry and music.

The only Bulbul which occurs in Europe was spotted in the Cyclades and bears a yellow patch, being otherwise of a snuffy brown and this is possibly the bird which has got mixed up with the nightingale in Sufi, particularly Persian Sufi, poetry.

), who composed epic paraphrases of parts of the Bible, such as the Musa-nama ( history of Moses ); later poets composed lyric poetry of a Sufi cast.

He is noted for establishing a rule for conduct in the khanaqah and also for the introduction of music ( sama '), poetry and dance, as part of the Sufi collective devotional ritual of dhikr.

* Sufi poetry

The poetry is typically about divine love and is most often linked to Sufi Islam. Mugam created in ancient Iran territory and developed in Azerbaijan republic and Iran Azerbaijan provinces since Safavid ( The most branch of mugam which called by bayat ( like bayat-e-kurd, bayate-shiraz, bayat-e-turk ...) created by an Azerbaijani tradition ( Bayat which have music talents ) in different provinces of Iran like kurdisatn, shiraz, isfahan.

Interludes of spoken Sufi poetry interrupt the music, typically beginning at a low register and gradually ascending to a climax before calming back down to the beginning tone.

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A later poetess Walladah, Umawi princess of al-Andulus, wrote Sufi poetry and was the lover of fellow poet ibn Zaydun.

* Qawwali, is a form of urdu poetry read along with devotional music, A Qawwali is almost always dedicated to particular Sufi.

His poetry is still sung today at Sufi shrines throughout Pakistan and India.

Every Sunday afternoon, people gather in the gardens to hear reciters recite traditional Punjabi Qisse, such as Heer Ranjha and Sassi Punnun, and other Punjabi Sufi poetry.

Punjabi Sufi poetry also influenced other Punjabi literary traditions particularly the Punjabi Qissa, a genre of romantic tragedy which also derived inspiration from Indic, Persian and Qur ' anic sources.

The folk poetry tradition in Turkish literature, as indicated above, was strongly influenced by the Islamic Sufi and Shi ' a traditions.

As the opposition of " the ascetic " and " the dervish " suggests, Divan poetry — much like Turkish folk poetry — was heavily influenced by Sufi thought.

One of the primary characteristics of Divan poetry, however — as of the Persian poetry before it — was its mingling of the mystical Sufi element with a profane and even erotic element.

It was invented by Amir Khusro ( 1253-1325 CE ), and is similar to the Qalbana form of Sufi poetry.

They drink an entire bottle of champagne and Ringo recites mystic Sufi love poetry to Brenda.

‘ Iraqi was both a member of the school of Persian Sufi poetry but also has been identified with the Ibn ‘ Arabian school of Sufism.

Over time, musical offerings of dervishes and sheikhs in the presence of the devout at these shrines, usually impromptu or on the occasion of Urs, gave rise to musical genres like Qawwali and Kafi, wherein Sufi poetry is accompanied by music and sung as an offering to a murshid, a type of Sufi spiritual instructor.

In purportedly morally mature mystical people who have developed this capacity through daily contemplation or meditation combined with selfless service to others, critical conscience can be aided by a " spark " of intuitive insight or revelation ( called marifa in Islamic Sufi philosophy and synderesis in medieval Christian scholastic moral philosophy ).

Gujranwala slowly developed as medieval town and many Muslim Sufi missionaries converted the local Gurjar population to Islam.

Dorothy Maclean initially followed practices from the Sufi group centred on the teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan and from this developed her contact with the divine to focus upon communication with ' nature spirits ' which she named as devas.

Bijapur developed into a cosmopolitan city, and it attracted many scholars, artists, musicians, and Sufi saints from Rome, Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Turkestan.

He has developed a style that builds on traditional Sufi music, but includes inspiration from ambient electronic musicians, most notably Brian Keane.

Sufi music has developed with the times.

The Rifa ' i order ( also Rufa ' i, Rifa ' iyya, Rifa ' iya ) ( Arabic, الرفاعية ) is an eminent Sufi order founded by Ahmed ar-Rifa ' i and developed in the Lower Iraq marshlands between Wasit and Basra.

The current resistance to Russian rule has its roots in the late 18th century ( 1785 – 1791 ), a period when Russia expanded into territories formerly under the dominion of Turkey and Persia ( see also the Russo-Turkish Wars and Russo-Persian War ( 1804 – 1813 )), under Mansur Ushurma — a Chechen Naqshbandi ( Sufi ) Sheikh — with wavering support from other North Caucasian tribes.

Later, in 1923, the Sufi Order of the London period was dissolved into a new organization, formed under Swiss law, called the " International Sufi Movement ".

In Sunni, Shia and Sufi Islam, Tay al-Ard ( literally " folding up of the earth ") is a term used to describe a saint miraculously teleporting, or " moving by the earth being displaced under one's feet ".

Selim III was a member of the Mevlevi Order of Sufi Whirling Dervishes, and entered into the order at the Galata Mevlevihanesi under the name ″ Selim Dede .″ He was a renowned composer, creating many musical compositions, including a Mevlevi ayin, a long and complex liturgical form performed during the semâ ( religious ceremonies ) of the Mevlana ( Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi-Rumi ) Tariqah of Sufi Whirling Mystics, in makam Suzidilara.

According to Ibn Jubayr, under Saladin, Damascus had 20 schools, 100 baths, and a large number of Sufi dervish monasteries.

The ghazal spread into South Asia in the 12th century under the influence of the new Islamic Sultanate courts and Sufi mystics.

He was also known under his Sufi name Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti and was addressed by his mureeds and others as Murshid.

He took an elementary religious education under Shaikh Daniyal who was a Sufi Shaikh of the Chisti order.

During his career, Smith not only studied, but practiced Vedanta ( studying under Swami Satprakashananda, founder of the St. Louis Vedanta Center ), Zen Buddhism ( studying under Goto Zuigan ), and Sufi Islam for more than ten years each.

In addition to the abolition of the caliphate, new laws mandated abolition of the office of seyhülislam ; abolition of the religious hierarchy ; the closing and confiscation of Sufi lodges, meeting places, and monasteries and the outlawing of their rituals and meetings ; establishment of government control over the vakıfs, which had been inalienable under Sharia ; replacement of sharia with adapted European legal codes ; the closing of religious schools ; abandonment of the Islamic calendar in favor of the Gregorian calendar used in the West ; restrictions on public attire that had religious associations, with the fez outlawed for men and the veil discouraged for women ; and the outlawing of the traditional garb of local religious leaders.

Kane, Tambala made ambient-and dub-based music with his sister Maggie under the alias Sufi and released the 1995 album Life's Rising on Caroline Records.

His grandfather, Shaikh Khizr, moved to Nagaur which had attained importance as a sufi mystic centre under Shaikh Hamid-ud-din Sufi Sawali, a khalifa of Shaikh Muin-ud-din Chisti of Ajmer.

In the 18th century, several prominent Muslim clerics from Gansu studied in Mecca and Yemen under the Naqshbandi Sufi teachers.

In Gurdjieff in the Light of Tradition ( 2002 ), Whitall Perry wrote that Gurdjieff believed that the northern Sufi orders could well be under the hidden direction of the Khwajagan-the ' Masters of Wisdom ' - themselves in turn delegated by the Sarman ' Inner Circle ', the ' Assembly of the Living Saints of the Earth '.

They converted from Meena under Sufi influence in 13th century.

His preceptor and religious guide was his maternal uncle Maulavi Muhammad Umar Bakhsh ( died 1887 ), a naqshbandi-mujaddadi Sufi of repute and an author of numerous books on religious subjects, under whose guidance Changawi completed the traditional course of Dars-i Nizami.