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Poetry
plays a central role in the practice and expression of Sufism.
In its attempt to express the inexpressible, poetry can bring
us to a closer understanding of our inner worlds and in the
process help us find a connection with the Divine. Sufi poetry
often relies on the power of the metaphor, which according
to an Arab proverb, "is a bridge to ultimate reality".
The
Beloved then becomes earthly and Divine, the wine of love
intoxicates the seeker, the moth turns and burns into the
flames of Love, the pen is the Human Being, the Ark of Noah
our bodies. In Sufism, it is as if every image contains the
world. The poet then lives awake in dreams. As the Divine
Calligrapher writes with the pen of the human heart, the Sufi
poet lets himself or herself be written. |
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