Islam

Shabistari, Secret Rose Garden, Logic

If God guides you not into the road,
It will not be disclosed by logic.
Logic is a bondage of forms;
A road that is long and hard.
Leave it for a season. Like Moses
Cast away that staff
And enter for awhile “The Valley of Peace.”

Source Shabistari, Gulshan-i Raz (Le Jardin secret des roses), trad. Florence Lederer (1920), archive.org secretrosegarden00shabiala (OCR corrigé) · Contents