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    Nobody, Son of Nobody: Poems pf Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir
    Nobody, Son of Nobody: Poems pf Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir
    Nobody, Son of Nobody: Poems pf Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir
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    Nobody, Son of Nobody: Poems pf Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir

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    Readers who swoon within the love-intoxicated poetry of Rumi must read the poetry of Shaikh Abil-Kheir. This renowned but little-known Sufi mystic of the 10th century preceded Rumi by over two hundred years on the same path of annihilation into God. He referred to himself as --Nobody Son of Nobody his expression of the reality that his life was subsumed in the Divine, and that the individual self had disappeared in the heart of God: Under this cloak is nothing but God. Introduce me as Nobody, Son of Nobody.' These are 195 short selections translated from the original Farsi. These poems deal with the longing for union with God, the desire to know the Real from the False, the inexpressible beauty of Creation when seen through the eyes of Love, and the many attitudes of heart, mind and feeling that are necessary to those who would find the Beloved--The Friend--in this life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHohm Press
    Release dateMay 11, 2020
    ISBN9781942493044
    Nobody, Son of Nobody: Poems pf Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir

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    Nobody, Son of Nobody - Hohm Press

    NOBODY, SON OF NOBODY

    NOBODY, SON OF NOBODY

    Poems of Sheikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir

    Renditions by Vraje Abramian

    HOME PRESS

    Chino Valley, Arizona

    © 2001, Vraje Abramian

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of quotes used in critical articals and reviews.

    Cover design: Kim Johansen

    Layuot and design: Hope Sinatra, Hope Graphics

    ebook ISBN: 978-1-942493-04-0

    HOHM PRESS

    PO Box 4410

    Chino Valley, AZ 863232

    1-800-381-2700

    hppublisher@cableone.net

    www.hohmpress.com

    To Huzur

    The Perfect Friend

    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

    My sincere thanks to Mr. Masoud Mansoori and Mr. Abdossalam Ahmed for their selfless support and encouragement, to my wife Elizabeth for typing this manuscript, and last but not least, to Regina Sara Ryan of Hohm Press for her personal interest in and her skillful editing of the original manuscript.

    Remember to seek the

    Beloved without the aid of

    reasoning...one's own

    intellect cannot be used to

    comprehend one's own Creator.

    Sheikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir

    CONTENTS

    PREFACE

    To those who believe in their teachings, mystics are living proof of that Eternal Presence that the human mind tries to freeze into time and space by giving it names such as Allah, God, Ram or Sat Purush. Throughout history, mystics have advocated personal experience of the Divine. They have maintained that humans have the potential to experience that oneness with the Infinite which lies beyond the realm of finite intellect. Such experience transforms the individual from one confined to the limitations and fears of self-centeredness, to a being who recognizes the presence of an Infinite Permanence somewhere in his or her consciousness.

    One who is established in this recognition of Infinite Permanence is free, in the sense that personal experience, not books or hearsay, make it possible for him or her to deal with the two issues forever staring the human intellect in the face: the issue of death, and the question of how to live life to the fullest. Personal experience with The Infinite Permanence reduces the issue of death to a mere change of venue, while providing a taste of some state of Being (or Non-being, perhaps) that prompts one to struggle for more of what makes life itself worth living! A Divine drunkenness of sorts now gives the individual the genuine ability to view life as a grand affair, too precious to be spoiled by such trivia as the amount of one's possessions, or the length of a lifetime, which is now appreciated as a temporary assignment within this Infinite Permanence.

    For our mind to be convinced of the possibility of this grand affair, however, it needs the teaching and guidance of one who has experienced Infinite Permanence, and is a complete product of this experimentation. However, these teachers-the bringers of the message of genuine freedom-are not necessarily liked by everyone. Many of their number have been subjected to persecution, often instigated by those who found mystics' teachings a threat. This story has repeated itself several times in written history, and from all evidence it will continue doing so. Jesus in Jerusalem, Mansour Hallaj in Baghdad, Sarmad in Delhi were all persecuted by those who feared their message.

    In Persia, after Islam was established, the term Sufi was applied to those remarkable individuals who demonstrated this message of genuine freedom and who acted as spiritual teachers. This brief book contains renditions of a few score couplets by one such Sufi poet, known as Soltan-al-Aarefeen, Sheikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir.

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