Bulleh Shah: I have got lost in the city of love

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I have got lost in the city of love

Bulleh Shah, Bulleh Shah poetry, Muslim / Sufi, Muslim / Sufi poetry, poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry

by Bulleh Shah
(1680 - 1758) Timeline

English version by
J. R. Puri and T. R. Shangari

Original Language
Punjabi

Muslim / Sufi

18th Century

I have got lost in the city of love,
I am being cleansed, withdrawing myself from my head, hands and feet.
I have got rid of my ego, and have attained my goal.
Thus it has all ended well.
O Bullah, the Lord pervades both the worlds;
None now appears a stranger to me.

-- from Bulleh Shah: The Love-Intoxicated Iconoclast (Mystics of the East series), by J. R. Puri / Tilaka Raja Puri

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Themes

Lover and Beloved

Recommended Books

	Baba Bulleh Shah: Music CD, by Abida Parveen
	Bulleh Shah: A Selection Rendered Into English Verse, by Bulleh Shah
	Bulleh Shah: The Love-Intoxicated Iconoclast (Mystics of the East series), by J. R. Puri / Tilaka Raja Puri
	Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the Early Mystics to Rumi, Translated by Mahmood Jamal
	Saint Bulleh Shah, by K.S. Duggal

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