Sachal Sarmast

Sachal Sarmast (1739 – 11 April 1827) (Sindhi: سچلُ سرمستُ‎, Urdu: سچل سرمست‎), born Abdul Wahab Farooqi (Urdu: عبد الوہاب فاروقی‎) was a Sufi poet from Sindh in modern-day Pakistan. He was a great saint, a mystic poet, a philosopher and one of the towering personalities produced by Sindh (modern day in Pakistan). He was known by his nicknames "Sachal" or "Sachoo". In Sindhi, means trustful where as Sarmast means mystic in Sindhi and the literally meaning of Sachal Sarmast in Urdu is "trustful mystic". He is also known as Shair-e-Haft Zaban, means The Poet of Seven languages, He addresses the wider audience in the following seven languages, Urdu, Sindhi, Balochi, Punjabi, Persian, Arabic and Saraiki.

Quotes

Poetry

Light makes me restive sweet Lord, restive am I for light
Neither a talker, nor a seeker, nor am I argumentite
Light makes me restuve sweet Lord, restive am I for light
Neither earthy, nor the wind, neither water nor as fire ignite
Light makes me restive sweet Lord, restive am I for light
Neither from jinns, nor from humans, neither mother nor father recondite
Light makes me restive sweet Lord, restive am I for light
Neither Sunni, nor Shia, neither sinner nor recompensite
Light makes me restive sweet Lord, restive am I for light
Neither law-abider nor abstemious, nor given to physical delight
Light makes me restive sweet Lord, restive am I for light
Neither a scholar nor a judge, nor rowdy drink's acolyte
Light makes me restive sweet Lord, restive am I for light
Which substance of School do you look for? he's with you and in flight
Light makes me restive sweet Lord, restive am I for light.
- Sachal Sarmast within reach, p. 27

Couplet

Who are you, who am I, I'm manifest in the same
On our heads we secured, a chaplet in a frame.
- Sachal Sarmast within reach, p. 67
My thoughts are not to eminence inclined, nor I ask to be the master
Neither then prelates, elders we became, nor then my name's Astrologer
Neither Indian, Sindhi, Arab, nor to being a Negro or Turk aver
Sachal nowhere is anyone present, within nothingness we occur.
- Sachal Sarmast within reach, p. 99

Doha

All this is strolling of the sea, neither any shore nor dinghy
Into the waters of oneness^[1], flying away this very entity
Cease the moment forget all else, all that bygone history
The future and past abandon, Sachal ask for frenzy.
- Sachal Sarmast within reach, p. 46

External links

Wikipedia

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Muzaffar A. Ghaffar: Sachal Sarmast within Reach, Lahore, 2007

Footnotes

↑ Wahdat al-wujud: which means "oneness of being" or "unity of existence," is a controversial expression closely associated with the name of Ibn Arabi, even though he did not employ it in his writings. It seems to have been ascribed to him for the first time in the polemics of Ibn Taymiyyah.

[1] Wahdat al-wujud: which means "oneness of being" or "unity of existence," is a controversial expression closely associated with the name of Ibn Arabi, even though he did not employ it in his writings. It seems to have been ascribed to him for the first time in the polemics of Ibn Taymiyyah.

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