Fakhruddin Iraqi: Sing

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Sing

by Fakhruddin Iraqi
(? - 1289) Timeline

English version by
Peter Lamborn Wilson and Nasrollah Pourjavady

Original Language
Persian/Farsi

Muslim / Sufi

13th Century

Sing
the matchless pleasure
of gypsy girl
and beggar
     Toss
     cap from head
     fling sandals
     from feet.
So
I kick my life away
and sacrifice
my heart
     Trade
     the caravanserai
     of this world and the next
     for One.

-- from The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry, Translated by Peter Lamborn Wilson / Translated by Nasrollah Pourjavady

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Themes

Heart

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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