Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

Since we have quaffedhas lit a flame: shall not our hearts be burned?

— Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

Before this there was one heart"There is no love but Love."

— Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

The Morning of Manifestation sighed, so much rain that the earth shone with Light.

— Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

The magic springbut you have blocked the flow.

— Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

Beloved, I sought yousearched for signs of you.

— Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

They look, they see, but do not comprehend.through Whom, and why.

— Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

Know yourself: a cloudand behold your sun of intimacy.

— Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

By day I praised You and never knew it.

— Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

The Beloved's Loveliness owns of Her beauty.

— Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

Expressions are many to that single Beauty.

— Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

It speaks to me in the silence of this oneand the message of an eye winking.

— Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

I am Love: in heaven and earth I have no place; I am the Wondrous Phoenix whose spoor cannot be traced.

— Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

Like the sun I brighten each atom's cheek;above and below, no likeness of me can be found.

— Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

Love plays its lute behind the screen — where is a lover to listen to its tune?

— Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

The world has spilled Love's secret — Every atom babbles the mystery —

— Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

Love the phoenix cannot be trappedits desert holds not a single footprint.

— Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

The world but seems to be from Eternity.

— Fakhruddin 'Iraqi