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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 Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (1982)

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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."

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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