aradeia:Literature Meme (❦): [i/ix] poemsThe Story of Sheikh San’an by Farid ud-Din Attar (c. 1145-1

aradeia:Literature Meme (❦): [i/ix] poemsThe Story of Sheikh San’an by Farid ud-Din Attar (c. 1145-1220), a passage from The Conference of the Birds. Translated by Afkham Darbandi and Dick Davis.The sun was hidden by a mist - her flesh                                               Yielded the sweet soul from its weakening mesh.                                             She was a drop returned to Truth’s great sea;                                                   She left this world, and so, like wind, must we.Whoever knows love’s path is soon aware                                                   That stories such as this are far from rare.                                                       All things are possible, and you may meet                                                       Despair, forgiveness, certainty, deceit.                                                             The Self ignores the secrets of the Way,                                                           The mysteries no mortal speech can say;                                                         Assurance whispers in the heart’s dark core,                                                   Not in the muddied Self - a bitter war                                                               Must rage between these two. Turn now and mourn                                         That your existence is so deeply torn! -- source link

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