Your waking through my words to you
by QushayriEnglish version by Michael A. Sells
Original Language Persian/Farsi
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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