ISLAMIC MYSTICAL POETRY
RABIA BASRI (d. AD 801; AH 185)
Your Prayers
You Have Infused My Being
If I Worship You
Two Loves I Give Thee
My Rest is in My Solitude
If I Did Not Pray
In My Soul
MANSUR HALLAJ (d. AD 922; AH 309)
I am at Your Service
What Can I Do, O Lord?
O You Who are the Object
Stillness
I Lost Myself in Finding You
Kill Me, O My Trusted Friends
I Guide My Sight with the Eye of Knowledge
Amazed at Thou and I
Which Place on Earth?
My Heart
When the Stallion of Loneliness
I Witnessed My Maker
You Dwell in My Heart
Hidden Love is Always in Danger
You Went Away but Remained in Me
O Sun, O Moon, O Day
Four Letters
I Swear by Allah
If You Want to Sing
I Swim in the Sea of Love
Truth
ABU SAID IBN ABIL-KHAIR (AD 967–1049; AH 356–440)
Quatrains
SHEIKH ABDULLAH ANSARI OF HERAT (AD 1006–88; AH 395–480)
Prologue
When I Could, I Did Not
I Have No Key
I Come as a Slave
O Lord Give Me Wisdom
We Have No Excuse
Desperate Lovers
If I Err
The Limit of Speech
AHMAD JAM (AD 1048–1141; AH 439–535)
Your Beauty
Wherever I Look
Drunk with Love
True Destination
Of Thy Mercy I am Sure
SANAI GHAZNAVI (d. AD 1131; AH 525)
In the Name of God the Beneficent, the Merciful
True Knowledge
Give Me Wine
In the Grip of Love
Love’s Command
Invocation
The Night of Union
NIZAMI GANJAVI (AD 1140–1202; AH 535–95)
I Have Made a Shrine
Majnun
FARIDUDDIN ATTAR (AD 1145–1221; AH 539–617)
The Fire of Your Love
The Pain of Love
Your Beauty
Mosque or Tavern?
O You Who Have Revealed
What Madness is This?
All-pervading Consciousness
Drunken Reason
Since I Received Your Gift
I Shall Be Drunk Tonight
The Path of Love
You Will Not Mourn
Lovers are Strangers
My Drunkenness
In Love
How Can Sober Reason Understand?
I Have Broken My Vows
In the Place of Majesty
Wouldst Thou Inherit Paradise
Praise
