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Muslim / Sufi

11th Century

About Ahmad Jami

Timeline (1048 - 1141)

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English version by
Peter Lamborn Wilson and Nasrollah Pourjavady

Original Language
Persian/Farsi

The Idol

Themes

Freedom

Recommended Books

	The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry, Translated by Peter Lamborn Wilson / Translated by Nasrollah Pourjavady
	Four Sufi Classics: Salaman and Absal/The Niche for Lights/The Way of the Seeker/The Abode of Spring, Translated by W. H. Gairdner
	The Mystics of Islam, by Reynold A. Nicholson
	Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty, Edited by Alan Jacobs

As long as one tress-lip
     of the hair of your existence
     still remains
I fear the Sect
     of Self-worship
     will survive.
You claim "I broke
     the Idol of Illusion --
     I'm liberated!"
but I fear
     your Manifesto is itself
     an idol.

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

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