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The verses of Su Mahmud Shabistari (1288-1340) from The Secret Rose Garden, of which we present a small prepublication here, are at times considered some of the most inspired works that Persian poetry has produced. They testify in beauty and simplicity to the light. ‘O, Light of God, o shadowless in nity.’

The name Each creature has its being from the One Name, from which it comes forth, and to which it returns, with praises unending.

The beloved guest Cast away your existence entirely, for it is nought 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.

The shadowless On the narrow path of Truth, on the Meridian line, he stands upright, throwing no shadow before or behind Him, to the right hand or the left. East and west is His Kibla cast, drowned in a blaze of radiant light. Hail, O Light of God, O Shadowless Divinity!

From: http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/srg/srg14.htm#page_72