Tag: Sufi Poetry

Sudipto Chatterjee’s Search for the ‘Man of the Heart’

By Sholeh Johnston

For issue #85 of SUFI, theatre artist and academic Sudipto Chatterjee shared the work he is doing to bring the songs of renown Baul poet, Lalon Phokir, to the stage.

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Silence

THE BREATH IS PRECIOUS

It was written in beautiful Persian calligraphy and was placed above the door of the old Tehran khaniqah. I first noticed it when I was a child: sokout dam ghanimat ast, “silence: the breath is precious.”

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