#Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition

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Skilled in the language of the unseen world.

— KHAQANI SHIRVANI ⚜️ Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, transl. by David Fideler & Sabrineh Fideler, (2010)

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Drink the wine of mystic knowledge, but don’t then forget to keep your lips closed.

— ATTAR ⚜️ Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, transl. by David Fideler & Sabrineh Fideler, (2010)

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You are demon and wild beast and angel and human— Whatever you cultivate, that you will be.

— BABA AFDAL AL-DIN KASHANI ⚜️ Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, transl. by David Fideler & Sabrineh Fideler, (2010)

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Arise from the tomb of your heart.

— RUMI ⚜️ Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, transl. by David Fideler & Sabrineh Fideler, (2010)

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Now that You’ve made a home in my heart, I’m seeking Your Trace in every space.

— FAKHR AL-DIN IRAQI ⚜️ Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, transl. by David Fideler & Sabrineh Fideler, (2010)

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I never really cared for the things of this world. It was the glow of Your Presence that filled it with beauty.

— HAFEZ ⚜️ Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, transl. by David Fideler & Sabrineh Fideler, (2010)

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Come lie upon my wounds.

— KHALIL TALAQANI ⚜️ Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, transl. by David Fideler & Sabrineh Fideler, (2010)

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Today I feel trapped, tightly bound in the cage of existence. I need the scent of nonbeing to set me free.

— SUHRAWARDI ⚜️ Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, transl. by David Fideler & Sabrineh Fideler, (2010)

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... your most royal beauty.

— NAJM AL-DIN RAZI ⚜️ Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, transl. by David Fideler & Sabrineh Fideler, (2010)

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Your love, from before the beginning of time, is my soul— it’s my very self.

— SULTAN WALAD ⚜️ Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, transl. by David Fideler & Sabrineh Fideler, (2010)

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You ravaged my heart and made it a desert so no other love can flower there.

— ABU SAʿID ABU'L-KHAYR ⚜️ Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, transl. by David Fideler & Sabrineh Fideler, (2010)

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Dear God […] Everyone asks for something from your royal threshold— but I have come to ask only for you.

— HASSAN GHAZNAVI ⚜️ Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, transl. by David Fideler & Sabrineh Fideler, (2010)

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When you find love’s alchemy, then all will turn to gold.

— HAFEZ ⚜️ Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, transl. by David Fideler & Sabrineh Fideler, (2010)

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The moon of your love causes the heart of each atom to glow.

— MUHAMMAD SHIRIN MAGHRIBI ⚜️ Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, transl. by David Fideler & Sabrineh Fideler, (2010)

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The day love’s fire was lit, the lover learnt the way of burning.

— ABU SAʿID ABU'L-KHAYR ⚜️ Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, transl. by David Fideler & Sabrineh Fideler, (2010)

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The path of knowledge I traveled intensely.

In the circle of mystics I have been elevated.

But unveiling the heart I finally came to see— really— that I know nothing.

— NASIR AL-DIN AL-TUSI ⚜️ Love’s Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition, transl. by David Fideler & Sabrineh Fideler, (2010)