Quotes by Fakhr al-Din Iraqi - Poems, thoughts of the famous spiritual, progressive, reformist, Persian Sufi poet of the 13th century

Fakhr al-Din Iraqi was born on 10 June 1213 in Komzan, Khwarezmian Empire. He was a famous Persian Sufi poet of the 13th century. Iraqi is mainly known for his mixed prose and poetry work, large poems Lamaat and short poems Diwan, most of which were written in the form of Ghazal. Iraqi was also spiritual, progressive, reformist and largely logical. Here are excerpts from his poetic works-

1.

In the search of life without the presence of a friend,

You did not spend a moment waiting at the door of love.

Oh God! Sit down and mourn your loss!

The time when you could live is gone.

2.

The first step in love

Is to lose your head.

After petty ego,

You then give up your life

And suffer adversity.

Leaving it behind you, move forward,

Clean the rust of ego from your own mirror.

3.

You are the cloud on your sun, so know your own true nature,

If this veil, which is you, is removed from before the eyes, the beloved will find his beloved and you will be completely lost. Then you will hear with the ear of your heart that the secret,

Which was hidden for so long, has finally been revealed.

The darkness of your night is finally bathed in dawn.

You yourself are the veil of the mystery of the invisible heart,

If it were not for you, it could never have been sealed.

4.

Beloved, I looked for you here and there,

Sought news from you,

Met whomever,

Then I saw you within myself and found that we are alike.

Now I am ashamed to think that I ever looked for your signs...

If you lose yourself on this path you will surely know, It is you, you are the one.

5.

The more I look at your face,

The more my eyes incline towards you

Like one dying of thirst by the seashore,

Lips pressed against the waves,

Thirstier and thirstier.

Do not seek, do not find - except in this one case,

Until you find the Friend, you will never find him.6.

How long will you cling to the habits of monastic worship?

To the prisoner of habit, obedience and self-denial are mere unbelief.

Unless you can break free of its embrace,

Your worship is bound to the temple of satanic idols.

Pledge your soul in the tavern to buy a sip

But do not try to bargain in piety - the coin is lousy.

How long will you stand on the shore of desire, dry-lipped?

Throw yourself now! Into the infinite sea

So that the markless ocean washes away all traces

And the sharks of ecstasy swallow you up all at once.

7.

Purified of all personalities, the lover's heart is like the landscape where the domes of power fill the horizon,

The place where the seas of the visible and the invisible flow together...

This heart is so vast that the earth cannot contain it and all worlds can merge in its embrace.

God hoists the tent of unity in the courtyard of unity...,

Contraction conceals what he reveals.

Expansion, gives back what he hides.

An idol so exquisite that the world cannot hold it,

How, how does it make its home in my narrow heart?

8.

Love showed its face from behind the veil

When I looked, it was my own face.

I prostrated myself before its face at that moment,

When it showed its beauty.

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