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Friday, January 16, 2009

Murmur of the breeze



Murmur of the breeze


O murmur of the breeze

Go and tell the fawn to find sweet water

Only intensifies my thirst

I have a beloved whose love inhabits my insides

Should he so desire

He might trample my cheek underfoot

His spirit is my spirit

And my spirit is His spirit

When He feels desire, I feel desire

When I feel desire He feels desire


Mansur al-Hallaj
(c. 858-922)

Mansūr-e Hallāj; full name Abū al-Mughīth Husayn Mansūr al-Hallāj was a Persian mystic, writer and teacher of Sufism most famous for his apparent, but disputed, self-proclaimed divinity, his poetry and for his execution for heresy at the orders of the Abbasid Caliph Al-Muqtadir after a long drawn investigation.

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