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Muslim / Sufi
11th Century

About Khwaja Abdullah Ansari

Timeline (1006 - 1088)

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English version by
A.G. Farhadi

Original Language
Persian/Farsi
In Each Breath

 
 
 
 
 

 

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

O you who have departed from your own self,
and who have not yet reached the Friend:
do not be sad, for
He is accompanying you in each of your breaths.

 

 

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

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