Advance from captivity to empire!
Think of Self and be a man of action!
Be a man of God, bear mysteries within!” 1140
I will explain the matter by means of stories,
I will open the bud by the power of my breath.
“‘Tis better that a lovers’ secret
Should be told by the lips of others.”[86]
FOOTNOTES:
[84] Hujwírí, author of the oldest Persian treatise on Súfism, was a native of Ghazna in Afghanistan. He died at Lahore about a.d. 1072. Pír-i Sanjar is the renowned saint, Mu`ínuddín, head of the Chishtí order of dervishes, who died in a.d. 1235 at Ajmír.
[85] These lines correct the Súfí doctrine that by means of passing away from individuality the mystic attains to everlasting life in God.