Sa'di in Love by Homa Katouzian

Author:Homa Katouzian
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780857729651
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-11-21T16:00:00+00:00

Harder than stone

It would be but a small loss

To lose my head for your love

Since you are bent on killing me

Let me at least see you for a while.

Looking at your face is not forbidden [haram]

It’s looking at another that’s forbidden

I wish to turn into dust at your threshold

So that you would step on my head.

I am not puzzled by your beauty

Since I do have some sense in me

I am puzzled at God’s qualities

That created such a perfect being.

Anyone anywhere who sets eyes on thee

Will be lost by your dazzling beauty…

Even hills are affected by Sa‘di’s sigh

Alas, it has no effect on your stone heart.

All my life I said stones were hard, unawares

That some hearts may be harder than stones.22

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