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To: Berry Picker who wrote (28138)	11/13/1999 10:36:00 AM
From: Graystone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 39621

And he said, may God be pleased with him or In the agony suffered for you, the wounded find the scent of the balm: The memory of you consoles the souls of lovers. Thousand in every corner, seeking a glimpse of you, cry out like Moses,"Lord, show me yourself!" I see thousands of lovers lost in a desert of grief, wandering aimlessly and saying hopefully, "O God! O God!" I see breasts scorched by the burning separation from you; I see eyes weeping in love's agony. Dancing down the lane of blame and censure,your lovers cry out, "Poverty is my source of pride! Piri-i Ansar has quaffed the wine of longing: Like Majnun he wanders drunk and perplexed through the world. References. "Lord, show me [thyself] that I may gaze upon thee" is said by Moses on Mount Sinai in Koran 7:143. God's answer is, "Thou shalt never see me!" "Poverty is my source of pride! (al-faqr fakbri) is a saying attributed to the Prophet. It is one of the Hadiths favored by the Sufis, who took this "poverty" to mean total spiritual disencumberment from the world. Piri-i Ansar is the poetic nom de plume often used in poems attributed to Khwaja Abdullah. Majnun, taken from an old Arabian story, is the lover par excellence of Persian poetry. Unable to be united with his beloved Layli, Qays of Beni, Amir went mad (majnun hence the epithet) and wandered senselessly through the desert. The Sufis saw in majnun the ideal lover who had shed his reason and abandoned his possessions and position on behalf of his beloved. Excerpted from "Intimate Conversations"