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Muslim / Sufi

11th Century

About Abu-Said Abil-Kheir

Timeline (967 - 1049)

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English version by
Peter Lamborn Wilson and Nasrollah Pourjavady

Original Language
Persian/Farsi

On Unity's Way:

Themes

Snake

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

On Unity's Way:
     no infidelity
          no faith.
Take one step
     away from yourself and --
          behold! -- the Path!
You, soul of the world,
     must choose the road
          of Divine Submission
then sit with anyone you like
     -- even a black snake --
          but not your self!

-- from The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry, Translated by Peter Lamborn Wilson / Translated by Nasrollah Pourjavady

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