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Attar of Nishapur
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“I shall grasp the soul's skirt with my hand and stamp on the world's head with my foot. I shall trample Matter and Space with my horse, beyond all Being I shall utter a great shout, and in that moment when I shall be alone with Him, I shall whisper secrets to all mankind. Since I have neither sign nor name I shall speak only of things unnamed and without sign.”
Attar of Nishapur (1145–1221) said by 1221 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Translated by Bernard Lewis, Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew Poems (2001), p. 119
“The sea Will be a sea Whatever the drop's philosophy.”
Attar of Nishapur (1145–1221) said by 1221 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Laurence Galian, The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis (2003), p. 285
“Your face is neither infinite nor ephemeral. You can never see your own face, only a reflection, not the face itself.”
Attar of Nishapur (1145–1221) said by 1221 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Looking For Your Own Face", translated by Coleman Barks, The Hand of Poetry: Five Mystic Poets of Persia (1993)
“Don't be dead or asleep or awake. Don't be anything. What you most want, what you travel around wishing to find, lose yourself as lovers lose themselves, and you'll be that.”
Attar of Nishapur (1145–1221) said by 1221 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Looking For Your Own Face", translated by Coleman Barks, The Hand of Poetry (1993)
“Do all you can to become a bird of the Way to God; Do all you can to develop your wings and your feathers.”
Attar of Nishapur (1145–1221) said by 1221 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Do All You Can", translated by Andrew Harvey and Eryk Hanut, Perfume of the Desert (1999), p. 10
“Joy! Joy! I triumph! Now no more I know Myself as simply me. I burn with love Unto myself, and bury me in love. The centre is within me and its wonder Lies as a circle everywhere about me. Joy! Joy! No mortal thought can fathom me.”
Attar of Nishapur (1145–1221) said by 1221 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Extract translated by Robert Alfred Vaughan, Hours with the Mystics: A Contribution to the History of Religious Opinion, 5th ed. (London: John Slark, 1888), vol. 2, p. 21. Titled "The Triumph of the Soul in Margaret Smi…
“From each a mystic silence Love demands. What do all seek so earnestly? 'Tis Love. What do they whisper to each other? Love. Love is the subject of their inmost thoughts. In Love no longer "thou" and "I" exist, For Self has passed away in the Beloved.”
Attar of Nishapur (1145–1221) said by 1221 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Love as the Ruler of the Universe", in Margaret Smith, The Persian Mystics: ‘Aṭṭār (1932), p. 93. Different translation in James Fadiman and Robert Frager, Essential Sufism (1997): "From each, Love demands a mystic sile…
“He who would know the secret of both worlds, Will find the secret of them both, is Love.”
Attar of Nishapur (1145–1221) said by 1221 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Love as the Ruler of the Universe", in Margaret Smith, The Persian Mystics: ‘Aṭṭār (1932), p. 93
“My friends, a shower of roses from that garden As my memoir upon your heads I've rained down. Since everyone has made some kind of contribution, Set forth another revelation and passed on, So I as well like all the rest have shown The sleepers how the bird of the soul has flown.”
Attar of Nishapur (1145–1221) said by 1221 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: vv. 4491–4493, quoted as epigraph in Leonard Lewisohn and Christopher Shacklevv, eds., The Art of Spiritual Flight (London: I. B. Tauris, 2006)
“All things are but masks at God's beck and call, They are symbols that instruct us that God is all.”
Attar of Nishapur (1145–1221) said by 1221 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Translated by Raficq Abdulla, The Conference of the Birds: The Selected Sufi Poetry of Farid ud-Din Attar (2002)
“All you have been, and seen, and done, and thought, Not You but I, have seen and been and wrought: I was the Sin that from Myself rebell'd: I the Remorse that tow'rd Myself compell'd.”
Attar of Nishapur (1145–1221) said by 1221 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Translated by Edward FitzGerald, Letters and Literary Remains, ed. W. A. Wright (London: Macmillan and Co, 1889), vol. 2, p. 481
“Sin and Contrition — Retribution owed, And cancell'd — Pilgrim, Pilgrimage, and Road, Was but Myself toward Myself: and Your Arrival but Myself at my own Door.”
Attar of Nishapur (1145–1221) said by 1221 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Translated by Edward FitzGerald, Letters and Literary Remains (1889), vol. 2, p. 481
“Come you lost Atoms to your Centre draw, And be the Eternal Mirror that you saw: Rays that have wander'd into Darkness wide Return and back into your Sun subside.”
Attar of Nishapur (1145–1221) said by 1221 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Translated by Edward FitzGerald, Letters and Literary Remains (1889), vol. 2, p. 482
“Yet what are seas and what is air? For all Is God, and but a talisman are heaven and earth To veil Divinity. For heaven and earth, Did He not permeate them, were but names; Know then, that both this visible world and that Which unseen is, alike are God Himself, Naught is, save God: and all that is, is God.”
Attar of Nishapur (1145–1221) said by 1221 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Lucy M. J. Garnett, Mysticism and Magic in Turkey (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912), p. 49
“Thou all Creation art, all we behold, but Thou, The soul within the body lies concealed, And Thou dost hide Thyself within the soul, O soul in soul! Myst'ry in myst'ry hid! Before all wert Thou, and are more than all!”
Attar of Nishapur (1145–1221) said by 1221 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Lucy M. J. Garnett, Mysticism and Magic in Turkey (1912), p. 49