In Two Parts:—Part I, Texts; Part II, Symbols.
The spirit of Sufism is best expressed in the couplet of Katobi:
“Last night a nightingale sung his song, perched on a high cypress, when the rose, on hearing his plaintive warbling, shed tears in the garden, soft as the dews of heaven.”
(Continued.)
SUFI ECSTASY.
Motto: “Highest nature wills the capture; “Light to light!” the instinct cries;
And in agonizing rapture falls the moth, and bravely dies.
Think not what thou art, Believer; think but what thou mayest become
For the World is thy deceiver, and the Light thy only home.” (Palm Leaves.)
ABULFAZL (A.D. 1595):