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The Beauty of Oneness

Khwaja Abdullah Ansari, Khwaja Abdullah Ansari poetry, Muslim / Sufi, Muslim / Sufi poetry,  poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry,  poetry by Khwaja Abdullah Ansari
(1006 - 1088) Timeline

English version by
A.G. Farhadi

Original Language
Persian/Farsi

Muslim / Sufi
11th Century

Any eye filled with the vision of this world
     cannot see the attributes of the Hereafter,
Any eye filled with the attributes of the Hereafter
     would be deprived of the Beauty of Oneness.

 

 

-- from Munajat: The Intimate Invocations, by Sheikh Ansari / Translated by A. G. Farhadi

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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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