Gulshan-i Raz [

or Gulshan-e Raz (Persian: گلشن راز‎, "Rose Garden of Secrets") is a collection of poems written in the 14th century by Sheikh Mahmoud Shabestari. It is considered to be one of the greatest classical Persian works of the Islamic mystical tradition known in the west as Sufism. The poems are mostly based on Irfan, Islam, Sufism and sciences dependent on them. was born in the town of Shabestar near Tabriz in 1288 (687 AH), where he received his education.He became deeply versed in the symbolic terminology of Ibn Arabi. He wrote during a period of Mongol invasions.His most famous work is a mystic text called The Secret Rose Garden (Gulshan-i Rāz) written about 1311 in rhyming couplets (Mathnawi).This poem was written in response to seventeen queries concerning Sufi metaphysics posed to "the Sufi literati of Tabriz" by Rukh Al Din Amir Husayn Harawi (d. 1318).

 This is the opening verse of Gulshan-i Raz:


به نام آنکه جان را فکرت آموخت / چراغ دل به نور جان برافروخت
In the name of Him who taught the soul to think,
and kindled the heart's lamp with the light of soul