“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

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