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Professor Arberry quotes Sanai on his own Hadiqa as saying: "Henceforward, so long as men have speech at all, the philosophers of the world will read this book!" For more than 800 years, in the East at any rate, The Walled Garden of Truth has been constantly read and employed as a classic and Sufi textbook. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)891.5511Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages Persian languages Modern Persian Persian poetry 1000–1389LC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |
The walled garden of truth or Haqiqat, written in the first half of the twelfth century by the Persian poet Hakim Sanai of Ghazna, is a masterpiece with the subtlety and inspiration of the great mystical writings. You can hardly find a scathing teacher that Sanai. His words, neither malicious nor gratuitous, come from someone who has seen himself. The conqueror of love is the one whom love conquers. Apply, with feet and hands, to the search; but when you get to the sea, stop talking about the river.