Essays on IslámS.P.C.K. Departmentôt, 1901 - 267 pages |
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Abraham Absál Abú Bakr Alláh amongst Arab Báb Bábí Bábis Behá Behá'ís believe Beyán called Christians Count Gobineau Dá'i Darwishes death disciples divine doctrine dogmas E. G. Browne Egypt essence eternal existence faith followers Gulshan-i-Ráz Hákim Hamza heart heaven Imám influence Islám Ismá'ílians Jaghbúb Jews Khalif Khán leader letter looked Lord manifestation Marabouts Masnawi Mecca Mírzá Kázim Beg Mosque Muḥammad Muḥammadan Muqaddim Muslim mystical namáz Not-being Order orthodox Persian person prayer Primal Element Prophet Qá'im Qáris Qurán Religion des Druses religious revelation Sacy's Exposé Salámán Sanúsíyah sect Seyyid Shah Shaikh Shaikh Sanúsi Shaikhu'l Mahdi Shi'ah Shíráz Sira soul spiritual Subh-i-Ezel Súdán Súfi Sultan Súra teaching thee things thou truth Ulamá Unity Usmán verse words Záwiyah Zikr Zimmis از است الله او این بود تو چو چون خود در عالم که مرد خدا
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Page 45 - That each, who seems a separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet: Eternal form shall still divide The eternal soul from all beside; And I shall know him when we meet...
Page 172 - I seek refuge in the Lord of men, the King of men, the God of men, from the evil of the whisperer, who slinks off, who whispers into the hearts of men!-from ginns and men!
Page 17 - Life of Life ! thy lips enkindle With their love the breath between them ; And thy smiles before they dwindle Make the cold air fire; then screen them In those looks, where whoso gazes Faints, entangled in their mazes.
Page 15 - Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.
Page 5 - I was a hidden treasure and I desired to be known, so I created the creation in order that I might be known.
Page 31 - I am He whom I love, and He whom I love is I : We are two spirits dwelling in one body. If thou seest me, thou seest Him, And if thou seest Him, thou seest us both.
Page 66 - The thralls of yearning love constrain in the bonds of pain and calamity These broken-hearted lovers of thine to yield their lives in their zeal for thee. Though with sword in hand my Darling stand with intent to slay, though I sinless be, If it pleases him, this tyrant's whim, I am well content with his tyranny. As in sleep I lay at the...
Page 139 - I testify that there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah'.
Page 19 - To lift the smothering weight from off my breast? It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win 45 The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
Page 94 - ... hair and beard flowing down in indistinguishable luxuriance almost to the waist seemed to belie. No need to ask in whose presence I stood, as I bowed myself before one who is the object of a devotion and love which kings might envy and emperors sigh for in vain!