The Man Of God

The man of god is born under the sign of contradiction, O Shamsi-Din!

The man of god lives in the Fourfold but belongs only to the god beyond it.

He rides his pony out of the Void in stately procession, a king beneath his tattered dervish cloak.

Drunk without wine, sated without meat, the man of god needs neither food nor sleep.

He subsists in a state of blessed bewilderment.

A sea without a shore, scholar without a book, he is beyond both faith and infidelity.

No one knows the man of god, O Shamsi-Din!

It is up to you to find him.



~ Lines from Mevlana's Diwan, rendered from the original Persian.