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Category Archives: Original Poetry
Laalii (The Crimson of Shyness)
by Ali Hammad This is an ode to Love. Love is the theme of Existence and Creation in the Sufi thought. The poetry is in a strict metre and rhyme that characterizes what is known as “ghazal” in Urdu … Continue reading
Ishq Kia Hai (The Substance of Love)
عشق کیا ہے؟ کیا وفا؟ اور کیا ہے آس؟ بھوک ملنے کی یہ جلنے کی ہے پیاس بندگی ہے نام جس کا میں ہی ہوں قید میں ہیں آپ کی میرے حواس ہوں جدا شعلہ الاؤ سے میں … Continue reading
Dasht-e-Hasti (Sands of Existence)
by Ali Hammad دشتِ ہستی میں نہاں خوشبو بھرا گلزار عشق ہے یہ دنیا اور یہ عالم، ہر سکوت اور کار عشق ہر سماعت اور ہے سامع، منظر و ناظر بھی خود نکتہ بین و نکتہ چیں ہے، معجزہ ہے … Continue reading
Ishq Kia Hai (Define Love): A Ghazal
by Ali Hammad ‘Hami’ عشق کیا ہے، کیا وفا اور کیا ہے آس بھوک ملنےکی یہ جلنے کی ہے پیاس بندگی ہے نام جس کا میں ہی ہوں قید میں ہیں آپ کی میرے حواس ہوں جدا شعلہ الاؤ سے … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbas Ali Khan, Ali Hammad Hami, Aziz Anjum, Ghazal, Hami's Poetry
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A Sufi Thought for the Week (Rumi)
Low in the earth I lived in realms of ore and stone; And then I smiled in many-tinted flowers; Then roving with the wild and wandering hours, O’er earth and air and ocean’s zone, In a new birth, I dived … Continue reading
Sufi Snaps: The World Through My Eyes (A photo and a poem)
by Ali Hammad DILEMMA OF A MODERN PERSON—2 Am I to leap and prance? Stay in a frozen stance? Move mountains with a glance? Dance a particle dance? Am I free or determined? Photo and poem by Ali Hammad Related: … Continue reading
Sufi Snaps: 21st Century Citizen (A photo and a poem)
by Ali Hammad DILEMMA OF A MODERN PERSON Uncertainty a certainty, particle is a wave-quantum; now you know my position, can you tell my momentum? Am I dead or alive or a Schrödinger cat? Photograph and poem by Ali Hammad
Sufi Snaps: Immanence (A photo and a poem)
by Ali Hammad Shipless a sea Gravid a zephyr A road at its tail Or maybe the mouth You on your Red Adirondack Dozing away The rising day Your breath deep And ponderous Pulling me in Ship unwitting Vortex unseen … Continue reading
Sufi Ways 