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He replied: "I am afraid lest they question me upon what I know not, and put me to shame: Hast thou not heard of a Sufi who was hammering some nails into the sole of his sandal. An officer of cavalry took him by the sleeve, saying, 'Come along, and shoe my horse. So long as thou art silent and quiet, nobody will meddle with thy business; but once thou divulgest it, be ready with thy proofs."
Thus Blake, for whom the Holy Ghost was an "intellectual fountain," hears the Divine Voice crying: "I am not a God afar off, I am a brother and friend; Within your bosoms I reside, and you reside in me." Thus in the last resort the Sufi poet can only say: "O soul, seek the Beloved; O friend, seek the Friend!"
The works of Sadi are very numerous, and are popular and familiar everywhere in the East. They abound in striking beauties, and show great knowledge of human nature. He died at the advanced age of 114. It would seem that poetry in the East was favorable to human life, so many of its professors attained to a great age, particularly those who professed the Sufi doctrine.
"The ways of God are as the number of the souls of men," declare the followers of Islam, and "for the love that thou wouldst find demands the sacrifice of self to the end that the heart may be filled with the passion to stand within the Holy of Holies, in which alone the mysteries of the True Beloved can be revealed unto thee," is also a Sufi sentiment, although it might also be Christian or Mohammedan, or Vedantan.
The poetry of Omar-i-Khayyam, now familiar to English readers, is a fair specimen; and the student will consult the last chapter of the Dabistan "On the religion of the Sufiahs." The first Moslem Sufi was Abu Hashim of Kufah, ob. "Kanat", the subterranean water-course called in Persia "Kyariz."
In fact, Deism may be a very faulty type of religion, theoretically considered; but Pantheism is religion's practical annihilation. It is not for nothing that in Persia, e.g., the name of Sufi in theory a pantheistic believer in the identity of the worshipper with his Deity signifies in current use not a mystic, but a freethinker!
He elevated his patrician brows, but gave the desired information politely: "My ribbon-name is Omar Ben Sufi, first-born of the second litter of Yiki Zootra and Sultana Yaggi Kiz. Here at home, however, I am known by a variety of others, such as Mon Prince de Maniere Charmante, Sugar-pie-precious, and " "Aw, cut it!" snapped the street cat disgustedly. "Dem ain't no decent names!
He was a Mohammedan among Mohammedans, a Mormon among Mormons, a sufi among the Shazlis, and a Catholic among the Catholics. One thing he certainly was not in his later years a member of the Church of England. He was baptized and brought up in the Anglican Communion.
It is well to emphasize this truth, for it conveys a lesson which we can learn from history at the present time with much profit to ourselves. It means that reconstruction of character and reorientation of attention must precede reconstruction of society; that the Sufi is right when he declares that the whole secret lies in looking in one direction and living in one way.
He was a Sufi, and preferred, like many of his fellow-poets, the meditations and ecstasies of mysticism to the pleasures of a court. His writings are very voluminous; he composed nearly forty volumes, all of great length, of which twenty-two are preserved at Oxford. The greater part of them treat of Mohammedan theology, and are written in the mystic style.
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