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

— Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

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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.

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)

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