Islam

Shabistari, Secret Rose Garden, Reason

LET reason go. For his light
Burns reason up from head to foot.
If you wish to see that Face,
Seek another eye. The philosopher
With his two eyes sees double,
So is unable to see the unity of the truth.
As his light burns up the angels,
Even so doth it consume reason.
As the light of our eyes to the sun,
So is the light of reason to the Light of Lights.

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