Conference of The Birds is one of many pieces of literature written by a Sufi. It was written by an Iranian Sufi Farid Ud-Din Attar who was charged with heresy because of his writings. This site is an introduction to the book written by Afkham Darbandi and Dick Davis. This introduction was published in the Penguin Books England version of the book in 1984. It is an excellent introduction of the Book because it touches up on all aspects of it: from Attar, Sufism, structure of the book, to its history and significance.
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This poem was written by Sir Illama Mohammad Iqbal. He was born and raised in Sialkot, Pakistan. He started a revolutionary Sufi chain of thought which questioned Muslim faith. He questioned that if God is omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omnicious, then why people, especially Muslims were suffering all over the world. His Shiqwa (complaint) to God almost got him killed on charges of heresy, and then he wrote Jawab-e-Shiqwa (answer to the complaint). In the Jawab, he assumes the role of God and then explains why Muslims were suffering in the world. Many argue that Iqbal was not a Sufi because he did not identify with an order. Many others argue that he was a Sufi because he used Sufi kind of reasoning to argue that humanity is a better deed then praying endlessly to God. This is simply one of the best works of poetry that is available on Sufi thought.
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