How can sober Reason understand the drunkenness of Love? How can Reason solve the mystery of Love? Reason is like a drop removed from the ocean; how can this drop understand the meaning of Love? Reason has put many a stitch on it, but no robe could it sew to fit the body of Love. You may hate the two worlds with all your soul, yet even then you’ll feel the warmth of Love. Since Love is the work of the heart open the eyes of your heart and look at the friends, how drunk they are with Love! Each being in His love breathes in His love. If you are to be annihilated, then lose yourself in Love! As Being entered existence and closed its eyes for a moment it was overwhelmed by the tumult of Love. Since Attar’s heart Did a ray from the Sun gain, He started his journey to roam and arrived in the desert of Love.

Fariduddin Attar Tr. Mahmood Jamal