Sufi Poet Quotes

“The greatest iftar is
to break the fast of apathy,
with the feast of affection.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Find a heart that beats for others,
Find a soul that seeks for others.
Find a mind that melts for others,
And there'll be no place for petty fears.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım

“I love, therefore I live.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“It is not a lover's job to make sense,
Lover's role is to humanize all senses.
Role of animal senses is to stay contained,
Role of human senses is to extend themselves.

To sense the sense is nonsense,
To sense nonsense is ultimate sense of all.
This is possible only when you are lost,
This is possible only when you are in love.

All five senses
are of no worth,
If you don't have
that one sense,
the sense of love.

Sense yourself till
you sense nothing but love.
Break yourself till each crack reflects
the infinity of the heart.

Each of us is an explorer of infinity,
Yet we are trapped in vain by insecurity.
Wake up to love and you'll see,
all cages are fiction,
cooked up by knee-deep sanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım

“I am infinite, I am unbound -
Come, steal all I've got,
strip me of all my legacy!
I started out as a vagabond,
I'll gladly perish in vagabondcy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“Platonic, tectonic, animatronic, puritanic,
If you can't think of love without
thinking heavy machinery,
it's neither faith nor facts you lack,
what you lack is dignity and decency.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“You are my Mecca,
You are my Bethlehem,
You are my El Dorada,
You are my Washington.

Istanbul to Alpha Centauri,
Tu sonrisa es mi cura.
California to Kanyakumari,
Sen gülünce ben fakira.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Every peacemaker is muslim,
Every lover is christian.
Every helper is buddhist,
Every lifter is human.
Every lovenut is sufi,
Every braveheart is latin.
Every collectivist is jew,
Every secularist is advaitin.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“I am a muslim poet, a humanitarian scientist, a latin lover, and an advaitin monk - I am an alternate dimension - an immeasurable dimension - where human oneness takes preference over animal separateness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“I am not a poet,
I am a paradigm.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Better have love without land,
Than land without love.
I came, I saw, I lost myself,
Now all I am is love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım

“Night brings light,
Injury brings elixir.
Gale delivers gallantry,
Clouds deliver character.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“I am a sufi poet, an advaitin philosopher, and a humanitarian scientist.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“How does the bird come and go
(Sufi Scientist Sonnet, 1300)

How does the bird come and go,
In and out of this bodily cage!
So long as you nourish it with love,
Who cares about some mythical fate!

Cages are born of dust,
In dust cages will wither.
Yet you sob in love of cage,
Oblivious to the endangered flier!

With all knowledge of cosmic building blocks,
How come you still cannot put an end to war!
With all your high and mighty technocracy,
How come children still starve and suffer!

I say, put your intellect aside for a change,
First unfold a human heart outside the cage.
Otherwise, your posterboys of superficiality,
Will turn this world into a wreck of cages.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“How does the bird come and go,
In and out of this bodily cage!
So long as you nourish it with love,
Who cares about some mythical fate!

Cages are born of dust,
In dust cages will wither.
Yet you sob in love of cage,
Oblivious to the endangered flier!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“I am the valley, you are my gate.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Shall Meet You There (Sonnet 1319)

Beyond tongue and tradition,
Beyond king and nation,
Beyond ignorance and intolerance,
Beyond cowardice and castration,
Beyond fear and fanaticism,
Beyond rigidity and recklessness,
Beyond the desert of dead habit,
Beyond the logical heartlessness,
Beyond the guise of practicality,
Beyond the price of convenience,
Beyond the lies of selfish order,
Beyond the highs of whims and wishes,
There's a valley of love and laughter.
Come someday, I shall meet you there.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Beyond tongue and tradition,
Beyond king and nation,
Beyond ignorance and intolerance,
Beyond fear and fanaticism,
There's a valley of love and laughter.
Come someday, I shall meet you there.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“While every robot seeks emotional maturity, be the human who cherishes vulnerable love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Any ape can find escape in romance novels,
It takes a human to be the living pillar of love.
While every robot seeks emotional maturity,
Be the human who cherishes vulnerable love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“In poetry I am sufi,
In philosophy I am advaitin.
In duty I am scientist,
In existence I am human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“For one who lives with kindness, every day is Ramadan.”
― Abhijit Naskar, L'humain Impossible: Cent Sonnets pour Ma Famille Mondiale

“I'm a muslim poet,
a humanitarian scientist,
and an advaitin philosopher.
Figure this out, and you'll
crack the Naskar enigma.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“I'm a muslim poet, a humanitarian scientist, and an advaitin philosopher.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“In an animal world of inherited division,
I'm the human cure to all apish inkling.
In this white heaven of fear and hate,
I am forgiveness, I am Visvamuslim.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Love if there is time -
Love, and there is time.
Love if there is breath -
Love, and there is breath.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Love if there is time - Love, and there is time.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Two Naskars (Sonnet 1541)

There's not one but two Naskars,
one humanitarian, the other sufi -
both rooted in a hatebusting blend
of reason and warmth, humanizing humanity.

The humanitarian sets fire to the blood,
the sufi makes ointment out of wounds.
Though the sufi came after the humanitarian,
it has only magnified the reformer's boon.

Along the journey of a humanitarian,
the sufi emerges from his soulful sea.
Cutting ties with all cave-age customs,
oneness is actualized in mindful diversity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Unleash yourself as love testament, be the answer to archaic derangement.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“There are cracks across my heart, nothing can bar the pouring rays.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee