The true Sufi, a poem by Rumi
Written by eastern writer on Friday, April 11, 2008The True Sufi
What makes the Sufi? Purity of heart;
Not the patched mantle and the lust perverse
Of those vile earth-bound men who steal his name.
He in all dregs discerns the essence pure:
In hardship ease, in tribulation joy.
The phantom sentries, who with batons drawn
Guard Beauty's place-gate and curtained bower,
Give way before him, unafraid he passes,
And showing the King's arrow, enters in.
R. A. Nicholson
'Persian Poems', an Anthology of verse translations
edited by A.J.Arberry, Everyman's Library, 1972
'Persian Poems', an Anthology of verse translations
edited by A.J.Arberry, Everyman's Library, 1972
More poems by Jalalluddin Rumi were collected at http://www.armory.com/~thrace/sufi/poems.html
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