Through love we're slain, the world's our slaughter house W… - Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr

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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.

Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr

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About Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr

Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr or Abū Saʿīd Abū'l-Khayr (b. 7 December 967 — d. 12 January 1049) was a famous Persian Sufi and Poet who contributed extensively to the evolution of Sufi tradition.

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Native Name: ابوسعید ابوالخیر

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I caught everything which I hunted.
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A lame fox drove me from den.

If you don not come to repent your existence,
You'll never approach the circle of gnostics and drunkards
Unless in other's eyes you become an infidel,
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