Yesterday's post was from the Mystical Writing, The Seven Valleys, by Bahá’u’lláh.The next few days will see various excerpts from that Masterwork of Spiritual Vision.
Today's excerpt is a collection of the poetic lines from The Valley of Love:
"...Attar saith: "For the infidel, error -- for the faithful, faith; For Attar's heart, an atom of Thy pain."
[Faridu'd-Din Attar (ca. 1150-1230 A.D.), the great Persian Sufi poet.]
"A lover is he who is chill in hell fire; A knower is he who is dry in the sea. "
[Persian mystic poem.]
"Love seizeth not upon a living soul, The falcon preyeth not on a dead mouse. "
[Persian mystic poem.]
"Love's a stranger to earth and heaven too; In him are lunacies seventy-and-two. "
[Jalalu'd-Din Rumi (1207-1273 A.D.); The Mathnavi. Jalalu'd- Din, called Mawlana ("our Master"), is the greatest of all Persian Sufi poets, and founder of the Mawlavi "whirling" dervish order.]
"Kindle the fire of love and burn away all things, Then set thy foot into the land of the lovers. "
[From an ode by Baha'u'llah]
[Faridu'd-Din Attar (ca. 1150-1230 A.D.), the great Persian Sufi poet.]
"A lover is he who is chill in hell fire; A knower is he who is dry in the sea. "
[Persian mystic poem.]
"Love seizeth not upon a living soul, The falcon preyeth not on a dead mouse. "
[Persian mystic poem.]
"Love's a stranger to earth and heaven too; In him are lunacies seventy-and-two. "
[Jalalu'd-Din Rumi (1207-1273 A.D.); The Mathnavi. Jalalu'd- Din, called Mawlana ("our Master"), is the greatest of all Persian Sufi poets, and founder of the Mawlavi "whirling" dervish order.]
"Kindle the fire of love and burn away all things, Then set thy foot into the land of the lovers. "
[From an ode by Baha'u'llah]