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Muslim / Sufi
13th Century

About Fakhruddin Iraqi

Timeline (? - 1289)

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English version by
William Chittick and Peter Lamborn Wilson

Original Language
Persian/Farsi
You are nothing

Themes
  Marriage
 
 
 
 

 

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

You are nothing
     when you wed the One;
but you are everything
     when you become nothing.

 

 

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

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