This book expresses many of the insights and teachings of the Sufi tradition in one of the main forms of their expression: moving lyrical poetry. Sufism is concerned with forms of knowledge and realization that exceeds prosaic description, and thus its main linguistic expressions have been literary and poetic. Bookstores typically have books about Sufism and some English translations of classical Sufi poets like Rumi, but none of these translations carry over the marriage of form and meaning, the Sufi aesthetics, that animate this tradition. This volume allows for the appreciation of this central aspect of the tradition of Sufism and one reviewer writes that it "open[s] up the treasure chest of Sufi poetry for Western readers.".