“Now that the April of your youth adorns
The garden of your face.”
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Hussain Ahmad Madani Malfuzat Hadrat Madani, p.83 (Delhi: Dar al-Isha‘at, July 1998 ed.) by Mawlana Abu ‘l-Hasan Barah Bankwi
“From my youth you have taught me, O God, and now I would like to proclaim Your Wonders”
Praise at the end of the index. In Systema Naturae (1758), from Psalm 71.
Original in Latin: "Docuisti me Deus a juventute mea, & usque nunc pronunciabo Mirabilia Tua"
Systema Naturae
“I now present to you the fairest maiden—what the hell is wrong with your face?”
WTF Is…? series, Guise of the Wolf (January 26, 2014)
“Show me your garden, provided
it be your own, and I will tell you what you are
like.”
Source: The Garden that I Love (1905)
Songs of Kabîr (1915)
Context: Do not go to the garden of flowers!
O Friend! go not there;
In your body is the garden of flowers.
Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the Infinite Beauty.
