Khwaja Abdullah Ansari: Devotion for Thee

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Devotion for Thee

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by Khwaja Abdullah Ansari
(1006 - 1088) Timeline

English version by
Anonymous

Original Language
Persian/Farsi

Life in my body pulsates only for Thee,
My heart beats in resignation to Thy will.
If on my dust a tuft of grass were to grow
Every blade would tremble with my devotion for Thee!

-- from Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty, Edited by Alan Jacobs

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Themes

Garden

Heart

Trembling

Recommended Books

	Abdullah Ansari of Herat: An Early Sufi Master, by A. G. R. Farhadi
	Ibn 'Ata' Illah the Book of Wisdom/Kwaja Abdullah Ansari Intimate Conversations, Translated by Victor Danner / Translated by Wheeler M. Thackston
	Munajat: The Intimate Invocations, by Sheikh Ansari / Translated by A. G. Farhadi
	Perfume of the Desert: Inspirations from the Sufi Wisdom, by Andrew Harvey / Eryk Hanut
	Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty, Edited by Alan Jacobs

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