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Poetry Chaikhana Blog » Fakhruddin Iraqi - It speaks to me

A lovely poem, and a fine commentary by Ivan Granger

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Poetry Chaikhana | Fakhruddin Iraqi - Muslim/Sufi - Poetry, Biography, Books

This thirteenth century Persian Sufi poet says what all mystical poets say,
and he says it in a way that really grabs me.
The sacred poet, and the Sufi poet in particular
throws theology and morality to the winds
and abandons himself to what he imagines is God
Call him heretic ( Read more... )

English version by William Chittick and Peter Lamborn Wilson

You are nothing
     when you wed the One;
but you are everything
     when you become nothing.

-- from Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (Classics of Western Spirituality) , Translated by William Chittick / Translated by Nasr Seyyed Hossein
Poetry Chaikhana | Fakhruddin Iraqi - You are nothing

Fakhruddin Iraqi: Whether they know Thee or not

This poet has 21 poems on this site.  All are good, some are wonderful.  It was hard to choose between this one and the next one, "You are nothing."