Fakhruddin Iraqi: Beloved, I sought you

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Beloved, I sought you

by Fakhruddin Iraqi
(? - 1289) Timeline

English version by
William Chittick and Peter Lamborn Wilson

Original Language
Persian/Farsi

Muslim / Sufi

13th Century

Beloved, I sought you
     here and there,
asked for news of you
     from all I met;
then saw you through myself
     and found we were identical.
Now I blush to think I ever
     searched for signs of you.

-- from Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (Classics of Western Spirituality) , by William Chittick / Nasr Seyyed Hossein

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Themes

Lover and Beloved

Recommended Books

	The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry, Translated by Peter Lamborn Wilson / Translated by Nasrollah Pourjavady
	Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (Classics of Western Spirituality) , by William Chittick / Nasr Seyyed Hossein
	Love's Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, Translated by David Fideler / Translated by Sabrineh Fideler
	Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty, Edited by Alan Jacobs

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