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Farid ud-Din ‘Attar
The sun of my Perfection is a Glass
Wherein from Seeing into Being pass
All who, reflecting as reflected see
Themselves in Me, and Me in them, not Me,
But all of Me that a contracted Eye
Is comprehensive of Infinity.
Not yet Themselves; no Selves, but of All
Fractions, from which they split and whither fall.
As Water lifted from the Deep, again
Falls back in individual Drops of Rain —
Then melts into the Universal Main.
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 compelled:
…Sin and Contrition — Retribution owed
And cancelled — Pilgrim, Pilgrimage, and Road,
Was but Myself toward Myself: and your
Arrival but Myself at my own Door:
…Rays that have wander’d into Darkness wide
Return, and back into your Sun abide. — from Mantiq al-Tayr (trans. Edward FitzGerald)
Farīd ud-Dīn ‘Attar (ca. 1145–1221) was a Persian Muslim poet, Sufi theologian, and historian who believed that the soul’s return to its divine source could be experienced in this world through ascetic purification and personal sanctity. Anticipating the “Parliament of Fowls” of Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) by about 150 years, the Mantiq al-Tayr (“conference of the birds”) is a 4500-line poem that uses allegory to explain the Sufi way of life.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Farid ud-Din ‘Attar
Farid ud-Din ‘Attar
The sun of my Perfection is a Glass
Wherein from Seeing into Being pass
All who, reflecting as reflected see
Themselves in Me, and Me in them, not Me,
But all of Me that a contracted Eye
Is comprehensive of Infinity.
Not yet Themselves; no Selves, but of All
Fractions, from which they split and whither fall.
As Water lifted from the Deep, again
Falls back in individual Drops of Rain —
Then melts into the Universal Main.
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 compelled:
…Sin and Contrition — Retribution owed
And cancelled — Pilgrim, Pilgrimage, and Road,
Was but Myself toward Myself: and your
Arrival but Myself at my own Door:
…Rays that have wander’d into Darkness wide
Return, and back into your Sun abide. — from Mantiq al-Tayr (trans. Edward FitzGerald)
Farīd ud-Dīn ‘Attar (ca. 1145–1221) was a Persian Muslim poet, Sufi theologian, and historian who believed that the soul’s return to its divine source could be experienced in this world through ascetic purification and personal sanctity. Anticipating the “Parliament of Fowls” of Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) by about 150 years, the Mantiq al-Tayr (“conference of the birds”) is a 4500-line poem that uses allegory to explain the Sufi way of life.