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Sarmad Shaheed


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Iran

Sarmad was born a Jew in Kashan (in modern-day Iran), around 1590. He became a trader and acquired knowledge of mystic traditions and of Arabic and Persian poetry. Before he arrived in the port city of Thatta (in modern-day Sindh) in 1632, he had converted to Islam. In Thatta he met a Hindu boy named Abhai Chand. The attraction was mutual and soon after meeting him, Sarmad abandoned his trade and became a naked fakir.

Sarmad arrived in Delhi in 1654. He stayed with Khwaja Syed Abul Qasim Hare Bhare, a Qadri Sufi, and became his disciple. Prince Dara Shikoh was amongst the devotees of Sarmad.

It is believed that Sarmad was executed on the orders of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir in the year 1660.

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Average rating: 4.43 · 23 ratings · 5 reviews · 3 distinct works
The Rubaiyat of Sarmad
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Sarmad and His Rubaiyat
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“Although hundreds of friends
Have become my foes,
The friendship of One
Has given security to my soul.
Rejecting many I have embraced the One-
At last
I am He and He is me.”
― Sarmad Shaheed, The Rubaiyat of Sarmad
tags: mysticism, religion, sufism
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“I am the king of kings
O Sheikh! Not naked like you,
I love madness, dynamism, but I am not distraught
An infidel, an idolator,
I am not one of the pious.
I am going towards the mosque
But I am not a Muslim.”
― Sarmad Shaheed
tags: mysticism, religion, sufism
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