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Muslim / Sufi
11th Century

About Qushayri

Timeline (? - 1074)

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English version by
Michael A. Sells

Original Language
Persian/Farsi
Your waking through my words to you

Themes
  Heart
  Wine
 
 
 

 

Recommended Books

Early Islamic Mysticism: Sufi, Quran, Miraj, Poetic and Theological Writings (Classics of Western Spirituality), by Michael A. Sells
Principles of Sufism, by Qushayri / Translated by B. R. Von Schiegell

Your waking through my words to you
     is complete union.
Your drunkenness from my gaze
     permits drinking for you.

The wine-pourer is never wearied,
     the drinker never full
from drinking to the dregs the gazes
     one whose wine intoxicates the inner heart.

 

 

-- from Early Islamic Mysticism: Sufi, Quran, Miraj, Poetic and Theological Writings (Classics of Western Spirituality), by Michael A. Sells

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