Fakhruddin 'Iraqi Quotes

Fakhr al-Dīn Ibrahīm ‘Irāqī , Persian Sufi master, poet and writer.

✵ 10. June 1213 – 1289

Fakhruddin 'Iraqi: 18 quotes4 likes

Famous Fakhruddin 'Iraqi Quotes

“Before this there was one heart
but a thousand thoughts
Now all is reduced to
"There is no love but Love."”

Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

Lama’at (Divine Flashes)

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

Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (1982)

“There is no God but Love.”

Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

Lama’at (Divine Flashes)
Original: (ar) La ilaha illa'l-'ishq

“Like the sun I brighten each atom's cheek;
I cannot be pinpointed: I am too manifest.
I speak with every tongue, listen with all ears,
but marvel at this: My ears and tongue are erased.
Since in all the world only I exist
above and below, no likeness of me can be found.”

Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (1982)

“Know yourself: a cloud
drifting before your sun.
Cut yourself off from your senses
and behold your sun of intimacy.”

Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

Lama’at (Divine Flashes)

“It speaks to me in the silence of this one
then through the words of that one speaking;
it whispers to me through an eyebrow raised
and the message of an eye winking.”

Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (1982)

Fakhruddin 'Iraqi Quotes about love

“Love the phoenix cannot be trapped
nor in heaven or earth can it be named;
no one has yet discovered its address:
its desert holds not a single footprint.”

Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (1982)

“Since we have quaffed
the beaker of Thy love, we yield our hearts
and make our Lives Thy ransom: since we come
again into Thy street, we turn our backs
on all that is, save Thee.”

Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

"We Yield Our Hearts" ~ Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty (2002) Edited by Alan Jacobs
Context: Since we have quaffed
the beaker of Thy love, we yield our hearts
and make our Lives Thy ransom: since we come
again into Thy street, we turn our backs
on all that is, save Thee. Our souls are bound
to serve Thee, though in grief, and we have died
to selfhood! We are captives of Thy love
and have not strength to flee. Thy beauty's fever
has lit a flame: shall not our hearts be burned?

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

Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (1982)

“The world has spilled Love's secret —
when could music ever hold its tongue?
Every atom babbles the mystery”

Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (1982)

Fakhruddin 'Iraqi Quotes

“The Morning of Manifestation sighed,
the breeze of Grace breathed gently,
ripples stirred
upon the sea of Generosity.
The clouds of Abundance poured down the rain
upon the soil of preparedness;
so much rain that the earth shone with Light.”

Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

Lama’at (Divine Flashes)

“By day I praised You
but never knew it;
by night slept with You
without realising;
fancying myself
to be myself;
but no, I was You
and never knew it.”

Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

Lama’at (Divine Flashes)

“Beloved, I sought you
here and there,
asked for news of you
from all I met;
then saw you through myself
and found we were identical.
Now I blush to think I ever
searched for signs of you.”

Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

Lama’at (Divine Flashes)

“Expressions are many
but Thy loveliness is one;
Each of us refers
to that single Beauty.”

Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

Lama’at (Divine Flashes)

“The Beloved's Loveliness owns
a hundred thousand faces;
gaze upon a different fair one
in every atom;
for She needs must show
to every separate thing
a different aspect
of Her beauty.”

Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

Lama’at (Divine Flashes)

“The magic spring
that gives eternal Life,
is in your own heart
but you have blocked the flow.”

Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

Lama’at (Divine Flashes)

“The world but seems to be
yet is nothing more
than a line drawn
between light and shadow.
Decipher the message
of this dream-script
and learn to distinguish time
from Eternity.”

Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (1982)

“They look, they see, but do not comprehend.
They take no pleasure in the View,
For to enjoy it one must know
through the Truth of Certainty
What he is seeing,
through Whom, and why.”

Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

Lama’at (Divine Flashes)

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