"Except not a moment of peace from love of self, except no lofty position from lack of will. Worldliness brings no pro…"

"In Life's experience of varied kinds, this have I seen: Your grace, O Lord, far outweighs my sins. Strange, your merc…"

"O Beloved, in your mercy forgive me my sins and accept my night-long weeping. I live in bewilderment, full of transgr…"

"Death is hard on your trail in this wilderness– the end of you and all that you amass. Suffering at the beginning, re…"

"O Sarmad! Thou hast won a great name in the world, Since thou hast turned away from infidelity to Islam. What wrong w…"

"One day I was reading an Urdu translation of Sarmad's Persian poems when the sufi came into my room and sat down by m…"

"When Sarmad, a famous Sufi, came to Delhi from Hyderabad towards the end of Shah Jahan’s reign, DSra Shikoh had sough…"

"When I from life's unrest had earned the grace Of utter ease beside a quiet stream; When all that was had mingled in …"

"For sorrow and joy are one, and all the past And all the future mingle in a kiss."

"They said: "She dwelleth in some place apart, Immortal Truth, within whose eyes Who looks may find the secret of the …"