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Quotes from Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes — Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

1210–1289

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Love plays its lute behind the screen —
where is a lover to listen to its tune?

Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (1982)

The world has spilled Love's secret —
when could music ever hold its tongue?
Every atom babbles the mystery —
Listen yourself, for I'm no tattletale!

Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (1982)

I am Love: in heaven and earth I have no place;
I am the Wondrous Phoenix whose spoor cannot be traced.

Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (1982)

Love the phoenix cannot be trapped
nor in heaven or earth can it be named;
no one has yet discovered its address:
its desert holds not a single footprint.

Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (1982)

The world but seems to be
yet is nothing more
than a line drawn
between light and shadow.
Decipher the message
of this dream-script
and learn to distinguish time
from Eternity.

Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (1982)

It speaks to me in the silence of this one
then through the words of that one speaking;
it whispers to me through an eyebrow raised
and the message of an eye winking.

Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (1982)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Fakhruddin 'Iraqi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.