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Expressions are many
but Thy loveliness is one;
Each of us refers
to that single Beauty.

— Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

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More quotes by Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

Before this there was one heart
but a thousand thoughts
Now all is reduced to
"There is no God but God."

The magic spring
that gives eternal Life,
is in your own heart
but you have blocked the flow.

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)

Since we have quaffed
the beaker of Thy love, we yield our hearts
and make our Lives Thy ransom: since we come
again into Thy street, we turn our backs
on all that is, save Thee.

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Whose veil is unremoved
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Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

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