The Epistle of Autobiographies on Love, compiled by Ahmad Ghazali (to the pure soul of Master Saeed Nafisi) Introduction and review

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(1)-In Ritter's edition, this Arabic poem is placed after the following quatrain-- (2)-Ritter: z-- (3)-Ritter: day and night and year and month-- (4)-Ritter: be-- (5)-Ritter: The difference in the qibla of love is an attribute-- (6)-Ritter: that a rider rides on the sultan’s mount, but the mount is not his-- (7)-Ritter: harm-- (8)-Ritter: kharr-- (9)-Ritter: novice-- (10)-Ritter: pearl-- (11)-barmasidan-- (12)-Ritter: pi peyda(?)-- (13)-Ritter: the air itself-- Chapter When the house is empty and the mirror is clear, the form appears and becomes stable. All this display was at the time of the wave of knowledge, whose limit is the shore; there is no way for it in the depths of work, for its majesty is beyond limit, description7, expression, and the understanding of knowledge, just as the poet8 said: Bayt (Verse)9 Love has hidden itself and never anyone has seen it openly, How long will these lovers utter vain words? -- (2)-Ritter: drowned-- (3)-Ritter: will find-- (4)-Ritter: abundance-- (5)-Ritter: In Blame-- (6)-Ritter: does not have-- (7)-Ritter: and-- (8)-Ritter: and nothing of it should be sought from outside-- (9)-Original: Chapter-- And all three are the sword of jealousy, in turning away from strangers, for this was the way to reach a point where the lover was other and the beloved was other, and this sovereignty belonged to the radiance1 of love, for the strength of love’s perfection is in unity, and there are no details of lover and beloved within it2.