For more about the 13th c. CE Persian mystic Mahmud Shabistari, see this post.
Cast away your existence entirely,
for it is nothing but weeds and refuse.
Go, clear out your heart’s chamber;
arrange it as the abiding-place of the Beloved.
When you go forth, He will come in,
and to you, with self discarded,
He will unveil His beauty.
Translation Florence Lederer
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Shabistari spreekt over het gereedmaken van de kamer van het hart voor de Geliefde.
Jezus zegt:
“Zalig de zuiveren van hart, want zij zullen God zien.”
Mullah Nasrudin keek naar binnen en zei:
“De Geliefde was al aanwezig.
Alleen stond mijn eigen meubilair in de weg.”
— Murad