God

Father of Night

Bob Dylan

Father of night, Father of day
Father, who taketh the darkness away
Father, who teacheth the bird to fly
Builder of rainbows up in the sky

Life Itself

George Harrison

The Mystic

Hazrat Inayat Khan

The mystical path is the most subtle path to tread. The relation between the teacher and pupil is too subtle for words to express. Besides the language of a mystical teacher is always illusive. You cannot, so to speak, pin him, not his words. You cannot ask of him…

Lovers are strange

Mawlana Rumi

Silence

Traditional Sufi saying (author unknown)

Whoever is taught the mysteries of God,
His mouth has become sealed and his lips sewn

Whom I Love

Shaykh Abu Bakr Shibli

My passion for You

Dhu’n Nun

amütu wa må måtat ilayka sabåbati

I may die, but my passion for You does not die

Sire of Sorrow (Job’s Sad Song)

Joni Mitchell

On the Road to Konya

Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore

Sometimes I get tired of all this talk about God
and I just want to go and sit under a tree

but then the tree starts talking to me about God
and we find ourselves in another conversation

Aliving

Yusuf Misdaq

1

Wherefore art Thou?

2

I’ve said the word ‘before’
In my head enough times
And now it rhymes with silence and has lost all meaning