Sufi music is the devotional music of the Sufis, inspired by the works of Sufi poets, like Rumi, Hafiz, Bulleh Shah and Khwaja Ghulam Farid.
Qawwali is the most well known form of Sufi music, common in India and Pakistan. However, music is also central to the [[Sema] ceremony of] the whirling dervishes, which is set to a form of music called Ayin, a vocal and instrumental piece featuring Turkish classical instruments such as the ney (a reed flute). The West African gnawa is another form, and Sufis from Indonesia to Afghanistan to Morocco have made music central to their practises. Some of the Sufi orders have taken an approach more akin to puritanforms of Islam, declaring music to be unhelpful to the Sufi way.
Sufi love songs are often performed as ghazals and Kafi, a solo genre accompanied by percussion and harmonium, using a repertoire of songs by Sufi poets.
Sufi poetry has been written in many languages, both for private devotional reading and as lyrics for music played during worship, or dhikr. Themes and styles established in Punjabi Poetry, Sindhi Poetry, Arabic poetry and mostly Persian poetry have had an enormous influence on Sufi poetry throughout the Islamic world, and is often part of the Sufi music.
Some of the most famous works, both poetry and prose, in Sufi literature are:
§ Ibn Arabi's Fuṣūṣ-ul-Ḥikam ("The Bezels of Wisdom") and Tarjuman al-Ashraq ("The Interpreter of Desires")
§ Bahr-ul-Uloom Muhammad Abdul Qadeer Siddiqi Qadri Hasrat's "Kulliyyat-e-Hasrat" (Collection of Poetry in devotion to the Prophet and other Sufis).
Diwan-e-Akhtar by Hazrat Hakim Akhtar(Damat barkatuhum aaliya)
