MAJNUN (QAYS IBN AL-MULAWWAH) Life & Poems Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Majnun was a real person Qays (Majnun='madman) was a youth, a Bedouin poet in the seventh century of the Bani Amir tribe in the Najd desert in Arabia. He fell in love with Layla from the same tribe whom he was denied. (It is said that Shakespeare was inspired by their tale for Romeo & Juliet from their tragic love story). Most of his recorded poetry was composed before his descent into love-madness (mast) then through a Perfect Master... his spiritual unification with his beloved. Here in the form of the qit'as...

LIFE & TIMES & POETRY OF HAFEZ OF SHIRAZ Paul Smith Hafiz's life from birth in 1320 until after his passing in 1392 is told here. Shiraz is under siege by the tyrant Mubariz and Hafiz's friend the king, Abu Ishak, is on the brink of madness and despair. Hafez falls in love with the beautiful Nabat, meets his Spiritual Master 'Attar, marries and has a son. He teaches at university and befriends the liberated princess Jahan Khatun and the poet/jester Obeyd Zakani. He experiences the people of his beloved city throwing out dictators, and the wrath of the false Sufi and black magician Shaikh Ali...

TAHIR GHANI KASHMIR'S GREAT PERSIAN SUFI POET Translation & Introduction Paul Smith Tahir Ghani (1610-1668) is Kashmir's greatest Sufi poet of the Persian language. His teacher & spiritual master was another great Sufi & poet Mushin Fani. Tahir Ghani was visited in Kashmir by Sa'ib, Kalim & Qudsi, along with Tahir Ghani some of the most influential poets of the new style of Indian Persian poetry (Sabk-e-Hindi). Tahir Ghani led a simple life often in seclusion and never wrote for royalty or the rich. He exposed corruption and sang of truth, love and beauty in ghazals, ruba'is, masnavi, qit'as...

THE SUFI PATH Metaphysics & Stages of the Way in Poetry by Mansur al-Hallaj, Nizami, Ibn al-Farid and others Translation & Introduction Paul Smith CONTENTS: The Tawasin. Mansur al-Hallaj was executed for declaring: "I am the Truth (Anal Haq)." Much has been written about his famous (and in-famous) statement and his masterpiece The Tawasin in which he makes it. 'Written in rhymed Arabic prose... it sets forth a doctrine of saintship-a doctrine founded on personal experience and clothed in the form of a subtle yet passionate dialectic.' R.A. Nicholson. Treasury of Mysteries by Nizami..: .."....

POEMS IN THE SIXTIES Paul Smith NEW HUMANITY BOOKS Book Heaven Booksellers & Publishers THE SITUATION We sit frozen in the room of our imagination paralyzed by distances. We see each other but do not recognise our Self in each other. We see only the shell the pale surface of our imagined existence. Sometimes the shell is cracked just for a moment and we are never the same again. Paul Smith (b. 1945) is an Australian poet, author and translator of many books of Sufi poets from the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu and other languages including Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, 'Attar, Sana'i,...

POEMS IN THE SEVENTIES Paul Smith NEW HUMANITY BOOKS Book Heaven Booksellers & Publishers 'X' MARKS YOUR SPOT If the whole of Creation were really a great treasure map to discover You, inside the core of me I'd find You: the treasure in the ruin. Paul Smith (b.1945) is an Australian poet, author and translator of many books of Sufi poets of the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu and other languages including Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, 'Attar, Sana'i, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Mu'in, Amir Khusrau, Nesimi, Lalla Ded, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre, Shah Latif,...

FOUR SCREENPLAYS: THE KISS, RIANA, THE HEALER & THE EMPEROR, PAN OF THE NEVER-NEVER BY PAUL SMITH THE KISS: Desperate JASSY ROWE has fled a miserable life in a drought-stricken town where she worked to support her family including her abusive father to the 'big smoke. Dreaming of stardom, beautiful JASSY is cast as "Lorna Doone" by the play's lecherous local repertory company director her new Bank Manager boss, JAMES KING. Hollywood acting casualty VAL HOOPER is in jail for robbery. His parole hangs on him acting in "Lorna Doone" and a psychiatric report by Dr Findgold. Cast as lovers, sparks...

FOUR MORE SCREENPLAYS BY PAUL SMITH GOING BACK is a movie inspired by a true story of love, courage and determination set in a land at peace, Australia; and a land at war... Cambodia. It is the story of people made into refugees by war: the orphans, the old, the young and those who have lost everything and the effect that deadly landmines often have on them. It is the story of the few from America and Australia who stand up to help and love and befriend and help them. But it is mostly the amazing true story of one man who rises out of the depth of despair and through a stroke of good fortune...

POEMS IN THE EIGHTIES Paul Smith NEW HUMANITY BOOKS Book Heaven Booksellers & Publishers THIEF OF HEARTS Fated now to walk as one that path Linking up through the form we fuse Into the hearth we send thanks and praise This journey takes us to the Sun we burn Along edge the Great Bird calls our name Imagination's clear white teeth erode mind Illusion's trapped within the net of song We dream of pure Love sound our Essence Married to the Thief of Hearts we sing "He comes again in Love with All, we swoon." Paul Smith (b.1945) is an Australian poet, author and translator of many books of Sufi...