In probably the greatest crossovers of all time, Rumi is taken from the esoteric to the symbol of Hip-Hop Culture itself, bringing the thoughts of the world’s greatest Sufi to a knew generation of leaders, thinkers, and change-makers.
It’s also my top song for my morning work out routine.
Bulleh Shah (Abdullah Shah) was a Punjabi sufi whose legendary poetry re-shaped the backwater rural Sirhind zones of the Persian-speaking world into a literary center until the fall of the Mughal Empire in 1857. His lines are some of the most identifiable today across Pakistan, where he has joined Sachal Sarmast and Baba Farid as patron poets of the Punjab.
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Sufiism is the Islamic equivalent of the Jewish Chassidic Movement.
The spiritualist epicenter of Islam, if we can construe Shi’ism as Islam’s
moral backbone, Sufiism is Islam’s compassion. Sufism is the traditional form of Islam in South Asia’s villages, and much of the subcontinent’s earliest converts became Muslim through Sufis preaching across their land. They also introduced Persian as the medium of Islamic civilization to the region, with lasting (positive) influences.
