Hakim Sanai: Until you are complete

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Until you are complete

by Hakim Sanai
(1044? - 1150?) Timeline

English version by
D. L. Pendlebury

Original Language
Persian/Farsi

Muslim / Sufi

11th Century

Until you are complete,
a bridge has been prepared;
but once you have become complete,
what are bridge and river to you?

-- from The Walled Garden of Truth, by Hakim Sanai / Translated by David Pendlebury

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Themes

Water

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	The Book of Everything: Journey of the Heart's Desire, by Hakim Sanai Al-Ghaznavi / Translated by Priya Hemenway
	The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry, Translated by Peter Lamborn Wilson / Translated by Nasrollah Pourjavady
	The Hand of Poetry: Five Mystic Poets of Persia, with Lectures by Inayat Khan, Translated by Coleman Barks
	Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the Early Mystics to Rumi, Translated by Mahmood Jamal
	Love's Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, Translated by David Fideler / Translated by Sabrineh Fideler

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