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Podcast: Poems of Annihilation

Episode: Bulleh Shah’s Punjabi poetry is for us all

Description: Sufi Lyrics Bullhe Shah poem 46-47 Christopher Shackle Murty Harvard “spin, my girl, do not idle” “I make myself distant” “I am awake, but the whole world is asleep” “Intoxication is the only thing that works” “when you become unstruck anhad” “does any lover sleep peacefully rebab rebeck “deal in what pleases the heart” Shah Inayat memento mori Ahmad ahad fana fi’l shaikh annihilation Sayyid arain dancing girl Mansur ana ‘l haq Hir Rankha Varis Shah Gorakhnath

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