Where Sufi fire meets Kabbalistic light, the soul remembers its source.
Whispers From the Reed: In the Dust of Rumi’s Sandals is a book of devotional poetry born from grief, longing, healing, and surrender. These poems move through love and loss, despair and awakening—always returning to the One who calls the heart home.
Written in a simple, honest voice, the verses speak to anyone who has been broken open by life. Rooted in the lineage of Rumi and the great mystics, they arise from a deeply personal journey through heartbreak, illness, faith, and unexpected grace.
Alongside the Sufi path of love and annihilation, the poems echo universal wisdom traditions, including Kabbalah’s inner teachings and Chochma—Divine Wisdom, the spark from which understanding flows. East and West meet here in the same longing: to remember who we are and return to the Source.
Inside you will find poems about grief, divine love, separation, healing, and surrender.
For readers of Rumi, Hafiz, Kabir, and spiritual poetry, this collection offers solace and quiet companionship on the path.
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About the Author
Mansoor Shafi is a poet whose work arises from an enduring search for the Beloved. Now residing in Colorado, he writes from a life shaped by loss, healing, and quiet devotion.
Rooted in the Sufi tradition and the wider lineage of mystical poetry, his verses draw from many sacred streams. Alongside Rumi and the great Sufi masters, he finds kinship in Kabbalistic wisdom, where echoes of Chochmah—divine insight—appear throughout his work. His poetry does not seek to impress, but to listen: to the whisper of the reed, the ache of separation, and the subtle call of the Divine.
Alongside his writing, Mansoor is a classical homeopath, a practice that has refined his attentiveness to suffering, silence, and the subtle movements of healing. This discipline informs his poetry, where spiritual insight and lived experience meet with clarity and restraint.
He believes that beauty, truth, and love are sacred pathways, and that the human heart comes alive when it remembers its Source.