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O saki, fill a cup

by Fakhruddin Iraqi
(? - 1289) Timeline

English version by
William Chittick and Peter Lamborn Wilson

Original Language
Persian/Farsi
Muslim / Sufi
13th Century

O saki, fill a cup
     with that wine:
my heart, my religion
     my sweet life.
Can drinking be my liturgy?
     Then my Faith
will be to sip the Beloved
     from this chalice.

 

 

-- from Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (Classics of Western Spirituality) , by William Chittick / Nasr Seyyed Hossein

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Themes

  Heart
  Honey
  Lover and Beloved
  Wine
 


Recommended Books


The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry, Translated by Peter Lamborn Wilson / Translated by Nasrollah Pourjavady
Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (Classics of Western Spirituality) , by William Chittick / Nasr Seyyed Hossein
Love's Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, Translated by David Fideler / Translated by Sabrineh Fideler
Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty, Edited by Alan Jacobs

 

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