A Tribute to Hz Allama

Allama Muhammad Iqbal has been a major inspiration for many including myself. In fact inn my early teens I was informed by “one of those who know” that Allama was much more than just a poet. I began reading his poetry although I could hardly read or understand Urdu at the time. I read it [...]

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M’iraj

” Cheest M’iraj? inqalaab andar sha’oor. (What is the M’iraj? A revolution in consciousness.) The colours of “witnessing” (shahud) of the universe change with our inner and outer development. As we are granted greater gnosis the grosser elemental side of us is left behind and the subtler side is stregthened ; the body is left [...]

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Hz Wasif Ali Wasif on Allama

The following is a rough translation of an extract form Hz Wasif Ali Wasif’s essay Sahib-e-Haal (a realized individual)from his collection of essays called Dil Darya Samunder. This is a beautifully written book in Urdu by a near contemporary Sufi from Lahore. It can be read online here. ” The detractors apply the formula; apply [...]

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Allama Muhammad Iqbal

Hz Khadim-e-Mohabbat held the poet Allama Muhammad Iqbal in very high regard. Indeed as a devotee of Pir-e-Rumi, Babaji also loved Mureed-e-Hindi ( a titile for Iqbal). He would often quote from Iqbal’s poetry in his majalis and letters especially his Persian poems which are less well known in the Indo-Pakistani sub-continent. In An-Nahl there [...]

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