Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion
Posted on 04/15/2012 by Juan Cole
At first I looked for
the pen of fate,
and the tablet on which it wrote,
and heaven and hell
in the skies above.
Then my teacher
guided me, saying that
all four lie within you.
Translated by Juan Cole
from [pdf] Whinfield 114
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