Think not the path of love
An easy way.
Here certain sense guide the Lover’s climb :
Its heights and depths defy
The plan of Matter.
Think not of this in careless terms
But bear in mind
Thy first station towards Love is nigh
When all is blotted out
But the Beloved
The Mystic’s way – all of the way
Is the path of the heart
To One Beloved
The quest of love –
With heart athrob.
An easy way.
Here certain sense guide the Lover’s climb :
Its heights and depths defy
The plan of Matter.
Think not of this in careless terms
But bear in mind
Thy first station towards Love is nigh
When all is blotted out
But the Beloved
The Mystic’s way – all of the way
Is the path of the heart
To One Beloved
The quest of love –
With heart athrob.
The Master Sanai of Ghazna
Translated By Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah
One
of the very greatest of poets and mystics of the east, Hakim Sanai
(1077 -1150) was acknowledged by the Master Rumi as his teacher. The
Poem above ….. is one of the Master of Ghazna’s ligher works. Sanai is
one of the Sufi poets who have been recognized as having influenced
Dante, who lived more than a century and half later. Sanai’s Journey of the Worshipper is
a masterwork in Persian, dealing with the experiences of the mystic on
the path to enlightenment. It is almost bewildering to those who have
not followed this route, in its sublime allegories and very many
dimensions. But the beauty of the words and rhythm give it a haunting,
unique quality for those who can read the original.
– Taken from
Idries Shah “Knowing how to Know”.
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