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Muslim / Sufi 11th Century	About Abu-Said Abil-Kheir Timeline (967 - 1049)
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English version by Vraje Abramian Original Language Persian/Farsi	[65] Love came and emptied me of self,
Commentary by Ivan M. Granger Themes   Lover and Beloved           Recommended Books The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry, Translated by Peter Lamborn Wilson / Translated by Nasrollah Pourjavady Love's Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, Translated by David Fideler / Translated by Sabrineh Fideler The Mystics of Islam, by Reynold A. Nicholson Nobody, Son of Nobody: Poems of Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir, Translated by Vraje Abramian Under the Sufi's Cloak: Stories of Abu Said and His Mystical Teaching, by Mohammad Ali Jamnia / Mojdeh Bayat	Love came and emptied me of self, every vein and every pore, made into a container to be filled by the Beloved. Of me, only a name is left, the rest is You my Friend, my Beloved.     -- from Nobody, Son of Nobody: Poems of Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir, Translated by Vraje Abramian Amazon.com
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Commentary by Ivan M. Granger

This poem beautiful and succinct summing up of the mystical experience in which all sense of self is lost in the Divine.

And there is, in fact, an awareness of being a container -- a vessel or a cup -- that receives and overflows with the "substance" of the Divine.

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