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I am a fountain, You are my water

by Zeynep Hatun
(15th Century) Timeline

English version by
Murat Yagan

Original Language
Turkish
Muslim / Sufi
15th Century

I am a fountain, You are my water.
I flow from You to You.

I am an eye, You are my light,
I look from You to You.

You are neither my right nor my left.
You are my foot and my arm as well.

I am a traveler, You are my road.
I go from You to You.

 

 

-- from Women in Sufism: A Hidden Treasure - Writings and Stories of Mystics Poets, Scholars & Saints, Edited by Camille Adams Helminski

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Themes

  Light
  Water
 
 
 


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