 14 Mar 2007 @ 22:54, by Unknown
Man Asleep
While mankind remains mere baggage in the world
It will be swept along, as in a boat, asleep.
What can they see in sleep?
What real merit or punishment can there be?
---Hakim Abul-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam Sanā'ī
Hakim Abul-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam Sanā'ī was a Persian Sufi poet who lived in Ghazna, in what is now Afghanistan during the 11th century and the 12th century. He probably died around 1150.
Rumi acknowledged Sanai as one of his inspirations. Sanai's best known work is The Walled Garden of Truth or the The Hadiqat-ul Haqiqah. Some of his lyrics survive.
The following is by the same author from the "Essential Sufism," compilation by James Fadiman and Robert Frager:
"O Satan," said Moses, "do you love God?"
He replied, "Every time his love increases toward someone else, my love and devotion increases toward him."
"O Satan," said Moses. "Do you remember him?"
He answered, "I am the one remembered by him, and whom he said 'My curse be upon you!' Do not the 'you' and the 'I' coexist in that curse? I am pledged to loving and yearning. I am in heaven and hell."
"O Satan," said Moses, "how is it that despite your cursed existence, your words are sweet?
"My experiences," replied Satan, "are those of one who has beem tested, Moses. I worshipped God for seven hundred thousand years, craving a better position with him. My craving in devotion brought about my destruction. I stopped craving, and now my remembrance is keener, my devotion sweeter. O Moses, do you know why God caused me to be separated? So that I would not mix with the sincere ones and worship him out of passion or fear or hope or craving."
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