Bulleh Shah: The soil is in ferment, O friend

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The soil is in ferment, O friend

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

The soil is in ferment, O friend
Behold the diversity.
The soil is the horse, so is the rider
The soil chases the soil, and we hear the clanging of soil
The soil kills the soil, with weapons of the soil.
That soil with more on it, is arrogance
The soil is the garden so is its beauty
The soil admires the soil in all its wondrous forms
After the circle of life is done it returns to the soil
Answer the riddle O Bulleh, and take this burden off my head."

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

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Themes

Garden

Sound

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	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
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