Islam

Shabistari, Secret Rose Garden, The Infant and the Youth

The young infant in the cradle
Stays at his mother’s side,
But when he is grown manly
He goes forth with his father.
So you remain with your mother,
The fleshly elements,
Until you join your Father up on high.

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