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 Punjabi poetry, Sindhi poetry, 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 Hafiz Shirazi
- 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")
- Ashraf Jahangir Semnani's Lataife Ashrafi
- Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri's Dala’il al-Barakat
- 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)
- Tassawwuff by Syed Waheed Ashraf
- Arif Al-Majdhub The Travels Of Hakim Kohl’in Al-Deen Al-Salik:
Famous quotes containing the word poetry:
“Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to it. It is only by a miracle that poetry is written at all. It is not recoverable thought, but a hue caught from a vaster receding thought.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)