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Abu Ismaïl Abdullah al-Herawi al-Ansari or Abdullah Ansari of Herat also known as Pir-i Herat "Sage of Herat", was a Persian Sufi saint of Arab origin who lived in the 11th century in Herat . One of the outstanding figures in Khorasan in the 5th/11th century: commentator of the Qur'an, traditionist, polemicist, and spiritual master, known for his oratory and poetic talents in Arabic and Persian. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. May 1006 – 8. March 1089
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Khwaja Abdullah Ansari Quotes

“The heart in which love and compassion for all living beings resides, can have no room for seeking after personal pleasures. O friend, take care to do no harm to any living creature; to hurt his creation is to forget the Creator.”

Khwaja Abdullah Ansari

Quoted in Tales of the Mystic East: An Anthology of Mystic and Moral Tales Taken from the Teachings of the Saints (Radha Soami Satsang Beas, 1997), p. 208

Love , Pleasure , Heart , Hurt

“Great shame it is to deem of high degree
Thyself, or over others rackon thee.
Strive to be like the pupil of thine eye—
To see all else, but not thyself to see.”

Khwaja Abdullah Ansari

A Literary History of Persian, Vol. 2, p. 270
Poetry

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