Islam

Shabistari, Secret Rose Garden, The Reflection in the Mirror

Hold up a mirror before you
And gaze on that other person.
... Again look and consider;
Your proper self is here, not there.
What, then, can be this reflection,
This shadow of your face?
In the same way as light and dark are not connected,
Being is not joined to Not-Being.

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