صوفیانہ شاعری میں اسلام اور محبت :ایک تجزیاتی مطالعہ

Mystic poetry in Urdu and Persian raises many questions for the sheer reason of poetic diction and style of certain Sofie poets such as Fariduddin Attar, Jalaluddin Rumi and Khwaja Mir Dard. Such questions may be summed up as: Did the Sufi poets not care about the tenets of Islam? Did they not value the real spirit of Islam? What is the real intent behind the apparently blasphemous couplets to be found in some sofie poets? This article tries to find out the answers to such disturbing questions, quoting vastly from Urdu and Persian poets. The writer emphasizes that unless some terminologies used in mystic poetry and Sufism are understood these couplets remain as arcane and mysterious as the ideas of mysticism itself. He laments that the apparent meanings of Sufi poetry are taken literally and hence the Islamic Sofie poets are blamed for blasphemy.