Basatin al-uns 77.86

77.86

He who has not seen the face of contentment has seen nothing; / he who has not attained the honor of seclusion has attained nothing.
He had burned his pleasure-seeking self like a candle in the heat of the sun of deprivation and longing, so that he might attain to the sheltering shade
of the shadows of Ṭūbā, and resigned himself to a bed of granite and thorns so that upon the enduring throne of the gardens of the highest paradise