[Poetry Chaikhana] Ayn al-Qozat Hamadani - He Who splashed a thousand worlds with color

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Ivan thinks this poem 'says it all!'--- On Mon, 5/1/09, Poetry Chaikhana <ivan wrote:

Poetry Chaikhana <ivan[Poetry Chaikhana] Ayn al-Qozat Hamadani - He Who splashed a thousand worlds with coloralanadamsjacobsDate: Monday, 5 January, 2009, 6:24 PM

 

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He Who splashed a thousand worlds with color

By Ayn al-Qozat Hamadani(1098 - 1131)

English version by Peter Lamborn Wilson and Nasrollah Pourjavady

He Who splashed a thousand worlds with colorHow can He buy the paint of "I and thou"?Colors, colors -- nothing but whim and fantasy;HE is colorless, and one must adopt His hue.

 

 

 

 

 

 

-- from The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry, Translated by Peter Lamborn Wilson / Translated by Nasrollah Pourjavady

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Hi Alan -Mm. I think the poem says it all...---Ayn al-Qozat Hamadani (sometimes transliterated as Ayn-al-Qudat Hamadani) was born in Persia (Iran) in the region of Hamadan. Hamadani was a Sufi philosopher, mystic, and mathematician. He was executed in Baghdad at the age of 33 on the charge of heresy.Ivan

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