Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr: Quotes about love

Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr was poet. Explore interesting quotes on love.

Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr: 22 quotes0 likes

“Love came and flew as blood in my veins
Emptied me of myself and filled me with beloved.
Each part of my being she conquered
Now a mere name is left to me and the rest is she.”

Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr

“Through love we're slain, the world's our slaughter house
We've no food nor sleep, the world's our cookhouse.
We've no desire for paradise, because
Our hell's a hundred times loftier than that.”

Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 97

“When I was a lion, panther was my prey;
I caught everything which I hunted.
When I came to embrace tightly love for you,
A lame fox drove me from den.”

Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 97