The article provides a close study of the literary and mystical meanings of Urdu ghazal "Ka'ba kā shauq hai na sanam khāna chāhiye" by Bedam Shah Warsi. It is discussed in the context of Sufi poetry and the qawwali tradition of the Indian subcontinent. Bedam Shah Warsi (1876-1936), who was the disciple of Haji Waris Ali Shah and famous for na'tiya and mystic verses, constructs the ghazal...
Saif-ul-Malook is one of Mian Muhammad Bakhsh's important works of Punjabi Sufi poetry, and through the story of love, he has included the inner meaning of life and spiritual change. While the story is told through Prince Saif-ul-Malook's quest for Badi-ul-Jamal, there is much more to it than the romance of desire and love. The work is about human struggles, desires, sufferings, endurance,...