Sa'di: The world, my brother! will abide with none

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The world, my brother! will abide with none

Sa'di, Sa'di poetry, Muslim / Sufi, Muslim / Sufi poetry, poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry

by Sa'di
(1207? - 1291) Timeline

English version by
Edward B. Eastwick

Original Language
Persian/Farsi

Muslim / Sufi

13th Century

The world, my brother! will abide with none,
By the world's Maker let thy heart be won.
Rely not, nor repose on this world's gain,
For many a son like thee she has reared and slain.
What matters, when the spirit seeks to fly,
If on a throne or on bare earth we die?

1258

-- from The Gulistan of Sadi: The Rose Garden, Translated by Edward B. Eastwick

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Themes

Death

Heart

Recommended Books

	The Gulistan of Sadi: The Rose Garden, Translated by Edward B. Eastwick
	Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the Early Mystics to Rumi, Translated by Mahmood Jamal
	The Mystics of Islam, by Reynold A. Nicholson
	Perfume of the Desert: Inspirations from Sufi Wisdom, by Andrew Harvey / Eryk Hanut

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