Mystical poem · 1920

The Secret Rose Garden (Gulshan-i Rāz)

Selections, trans. Florence Lederer (Wisdom of the East, 1920)

by Mahmud Shabistari

Translated by Florence Lederer (The Secret Rose Garden, 1920)

A Persian Sufi poem of 1311 in reply to fifteen questions about the mystic path, in Florence Lederer's selective English verse.

Contents · 15 parts

• Part I. The Perfect Face of the Belovedabout 120 lines
• Part II. Beauty36 lines
• Part III. The Sea and its Pearls50 lines
• Part IV. The Journeyabout 120 lines
• Part V. Time and This Dream-World56 lines
• Part VI. Reflections75 lines
• Part VII. Divine Inebriationabout 100 lines
• Part VIII. Reason and Free-Will71 lines
• Part IX. Man: His Capabilities and His Destinyabout 140 lines
• Part X. The One60 lines
• Part XI. The Self16 lines
• Part XII. Idols, Girdles, and Christianity67 lines
• Part XIII. Thoughtsabout 110 lines
• Part XIV. The Light Manifest70 lines
• Epilogue19 lines

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