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English version by
Andrew Harvey

Original Language
Persian/Farsi

Empty Me of Everything But Your Love

Themes

Birth, Rebirth

Lover and Beloved

Wine

Recommended Books

	Ibn 'Ata' Illah the Book of Wisdom/Kwaja Abdullah Ansari Intimate Conversations, Translated by Victor Danner / Translated by Wheeler M. Thackston
	Munajat: The Intimate Invocations, by Sheikh Ansari / Translated by A. G. Farhadi
	Perfume of the Desert: Inspirations from the Sufi Wisdom, by Andrew Harvey / Eryk Hanut
	Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty, Edited by Alan Jacobs

Lord, send me staggering with the wine
Of Your love!
Ring my feet
With the chains of Your slavery!
Empty me of everything but Your love
And in it destroy and resurrect me!
Any hunger You awaken
Can only end in Feast!

-- from Perfume of the Desert: Inspirations from the Sufi Wisdom, by Andrew Harvey / Eryk Hanut

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