A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (Arabic and Persian)S. Sonnenschein & Company, lim., 1911 - 351 pages |
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agar alam amad andar ANWAR-I-SUHEILI atish ayad bashad bayad BICKNELL bihi bini birun BOSTAN OF S'ADI buwad C. J. LYALL chand chap CHENERY chun chunin CLARKE D. S. MARGOLIOUTH darad dast didam digar DIWAN-I-SHAMS-I-TABRIZ dust E. G. BROWNE earth EASTWICK gardad gasht gham Guft guftam GULISTAN HAFIZ HAFIZ ODE hama haqq hath hawa heart heaven hich huwa idha illa inna ishq jahan JALALUDDIN RUMI JAMI jumla K'az kana kard kase khak khalq khud khuda khush khwahad khwahi KORAN kuja kunad kuni lahu lladhina llaha llahi llahu Lord makun MAQAMAT OF HARIRI mara mard ne'er NICHOLSON nist nought OMAR KHAYYAM pish REDHOUSE REHATSEK RODWELL ruze shawad shikasta shud soul thee thine thou art thou hast thumma thyself tura uftad WHINFIELD wilt yake Z'an
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Page 250 - On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.
Page 14 - Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The similitude of His light is as a niche wherein is a lamp. The lamp is in a glass. The glass is as it were a shining star.
Page 191 - Among the signs of his power are the night, and the day, and the sun, and the moon. Worship not the sun, neither the moon: but worship God, who hath created them; if ye serve him.
Page 163 - It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces in prayer towards the east and the west, but righteousness is of him who believeth in GOD and the last day, and the angels, and the scriptures, and the prophets...
Page 288 - And that last Song is not the Last ; my Soul Is spent — and still a Story to be told ! And I, whose Back is crooked as the Harp I still keep tuning through the Night till Day!
Page 176 - I am not purified by their praises, 'Tis they who become pure and shining thereby. I regard not the outside and the words, I regard the inside and the state of heart. I look at the heart if it be humble, Though the words may be the reverse of humble. Because the heart is substance, and words accidents, Accidents are only a means, substance is the final cause. How long wilt thou dwell on words and superficialities? A burning heart is what I want; consort with burning!
Page 144 - Hail to thee, then, O LOVE, sweet madness! Thou who healest all our infirmities! Who art the physician of our pride and self-conceit! Who art our Plato and our Galen! Love exalts our earthly bodies to heaven, And makes the very hills to dance with joy! 0 lover, 'twas love that gave life to Mount Sinai, When "it quaked, and Moses fell down in a swoon.
Page 79 - O thou who art my spirit's treasure in the bitterness of dearth! That which the imagination has not conceived, that which the understanding has not seen, Visiteth my soul from thee ; hence in worship I turn toward thee.
Page 76 - Thou, whose memory quickens lovers' souls, Whose fount of joy renews the lover's tongue, Thy shadow falls across the world, and they Bow down to it ; and of the rich in beauty Thou art the riches that make lovers mad. Not till Thy secret beauty through the cheek Of Laila smite does she inflame Majnun, And not till Thou have sugar'd Shirin's lip The hearts of those two lovers fill with blood.
Page 282 - That road be thine toward the Shrine ! and lo, in bush and briar, The many slain by love and pain in flower of young desire, Who on the track fell wounded back and saw not, ere the end, A ray of bliss, a touch, a kiss, a token of the Friend ! APPENDIX III.