Baba Sheikh Farid: Wear whatever clothes you must

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Wear whatever clothes you must

Baba Sheikh Farid, Baba Sheikh Farid poetry, Muslim / Sufi, Muslim / Sufi poetry, poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Sikh poetry

by Baba Sheikh Farid
(1173 - 1266) Timeline

English version by
Nirmal Dass

Original Language
Punjabi

Muslim / Sufi

Sikh

13th Century

O Farid,
rent your silken veil
and put on a rough, woolen mantle;
wear whatever clothes you must
to meet the Beloved.

-- from Songs and Saints from the Adi Granth, Translated by Nirmal Dass

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Themes

Lover and Beloved

Recommended Books

	Songs and Saints from the Adi Granth, Translated by Nirmal Dass
	Sri Guru Granth Sahib, Translated by Gurbachan S. Talib
	Sri Guru Granth Sahib, Translated by Winand M. Callewaert

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