Khwaja Abdullah Ansari: A Path of Devotion

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A Path of Devotion

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by Khwaja Abdullah Ansari
(1006 - 1088) Timeline

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Anonymous

Original Language
Persian/Farsi

In this path the eye must cease to see,
And the ear to hear,
Save unto Him, and about Him.
Be as dust on His path.
Even the kings of this earth
Make the dust of His feet
The balm of their eyes.

-- from Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty, Edited by Alan Jacobs

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Recommended Books

	Abdullah Ansari of Herat: An Early Sufi Master, by A. G. R. Farhadi
	Ibn 'Ata' Illah the Book of Wisdom/Kwaja Abdullah Ansari Intimate Conversations, Translated by Victor Danner / Translated by Wheeler M. Thackston
	Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the Early Mystics to Rumi, Translated by Mahmood Jamal
	Munajat: The Intimate Invocations, by Sheikh Ansari / Translated by A. G. Farhadi
	Perfume of the Desert: Inspirations from Sufi Wisdom, by Andrew Harvey / Eryk Hanut

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