Passion caused sweet and joyous words to be uttered between us without a tongue.

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Had you seen us at Ráma proffering each other cups of passion without fingers, Whilst passion caused sweet and joyous words to be uttered between us without a tongue, You would have seen a state in which the understanding disappears—Yemen and ʿIráq embracing together.

Source Tarjumân al-Ashwâq, Poem 20 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Ibn Arabi, an Andalusian mystic, love unites beings as opposite as Yemen and Iraq — two distant lands that stand here for the poet and his beloved, brought together at Rama — and it speaks without words, beyond what the mind understands. Today, offer someone very different from you a smile or a kind look, without saying anything, and feel that silent bond.

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