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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Wine of Love, Mystical Poetry of Imam Khomeini Quatrains (Ruba‘iyat) Poetry Precious Pearl Fati, your nature with light is adorned! Bonds of the intellect's veil have been shorn! As though from an ocean of light and of grace This precious pearl so pure has been born!

Ordibehesht 1367 AHSOrdibehesht 1367 AHS [April-May 1988] Explanation While the above expresses something of the rhythm and rhyme of the original, a more literal rendering of this quatrain is as follows: Fati, as the light of your nature adorns you You have become beautified from the bonds of the veil of the intellect. It is as though from the sea of the dominion of light and eminence This precious pearl so pure has been raised.

Like so much of Imam's advice to his daughter-in-law, the idea that intellectual pursuit can be an obstacle to communion with one's divine nature recurs in this poem. The words for dominion and eminence (grace), Sultani and Sadr, are family names which allude to Fatimah Tabataba'i's genealogy. The Path Fati who treads the path of the angelic domain Wants to pass from the state of the noetic domain.

She is blind who from the well of the sensible domain Would go without a guide toward the divine domain. May 29, 1984 The Absolute Beauty Fati, uproot your heart from worldly interests Withdraw your heart from befriending this and that. Opt for only the one Friend who is the absolute beauty. Withdraw your heart from the being and space of this world. June 3, 1984 Explanation According to the mystics of Islam, the lowest level of being is the sensible world, nasut.

Above this is the angelic domain, malakut, which Henri Corbin has called the mundis imaginalis. Higher still is the world of the intellect, the noetic domain, jabarut. Finally, there is the divine domain, lahut. The phrase ‘being and space,’ kown o makan, is an idiom commonly used in poetry to indicate the physical world. Gnosis Fati, what does it mean, you and the reality of gnosis. What does it mean to comprehend the essence without attributes?

Having not read the A you shall not find your way to Z. Having not read the path, what does it mean to be gifted? The Friend As long as you have the Friend, you shall suffer no harm, As long as He exists, there is no dust of quality and quantity Abandon whatever there is and choose Him. There is no advice more excellent than these two words. May 25, 1984 Wake Up Other than the way of the Friend, where can you go?