Sufi Blues | 3 Original English Poems of Despair & Redemption (North American Nasheed)

Sufi Blues in English. Original Sufi poetry and Islamic nasheed (chant) written and sung by Dr. Jason Idriss Sparkes, a Canadian Muslim expat in Saudi Arabia. Jalal al-Din Rumi, Rabia al-Adawiyya, Ibn Farid, Omar Khayyam, Walt Whitman, Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Amy Winehouse, Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, Baraka Blue, Amiri Baraka, and The Last Poets meet inside these poems.

The three English Sufi poems explore despair, vulnerability, mystical love, sacred intoxication, and redemption.

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This channel speaks especially to those who walk the path of beauty and tradition. If you’re drawn to the voices of Shadhili, Rumi, Darqawi, Rabia, Ghazali, Abdal Hakim Murad, Malcolm X, René Guénon, Habib Umar, Baraka Blue, Firdaus Ensemble, Sami Yusuf, Blogging Theology or Paloma's Channel , you’ll feel right at home here. This is especially true if you are inspired by the daily rhythm of life in places like Morocco, Egypt, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, as well as the Muslim communities of the United States, Canada, Spain, England, France, and other Western countries.

0:00 Poem 1: Do Not Judge Too Soon
1:18 Poem 2: Give Us a Drink
3:04 Poem 3: Come Broken Friend

Selected reading by Dr. Jason Idriss Sparkes
Dissertation
https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/2300/](https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/2300/

“Morocco as a Hub of Globalised Traditional Islam”
https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13050392

“Decolonizing the Left and the Right: Muslim Mistrust of Foxes and Wolves”
https://themaydan.com/2021/02/decolon...

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