Abu-Said Abil-Kheir - If you keep seeking the jewel of understanding

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If you keep seeking the jewel of understanding

by Abu-Said Abil-Kheir

English version by Vraje Abramian
Original Language Persian/Farsi

If you keep seeking the jewel of understanding,
then you are a mine of understanding in the making.
If you live to reach the Essence one day,
then your life itself is an expression of the Essence.
Know that in the final analysis you are that
which you search for.

-- from Nobody, Son of Nobody: Poems of Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir, Translated by Vraje Abramian

Poetry Chaikhana | Abu-Said Abil-Kheir - If you keep seeking the jewel of understanding


Where my treasure is, their will my heart be.
and wnere my heart is, there will my Self be.
whether i know that or not.

I look for love in all the wrong places,
but there are no wrong places to look for love.
There are only wrong places to look for hatred.
Those are everywhere.

Abu Saeed says i am what i search for.
He does not say i will find what i search for.
Hah! A Sufi Koan.