THE SECRET ROSE GARDEN OF SA’D UD DIN MAHMŪD SHABISTARĪ
RENDERED FROM THE PERSIAN WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY FLORENCE LEDERER
London, J. Murray
[1920]
NOTICE OF ATTRIBUTION
Scanned, proofed and formatted at sacred-texts.com, September 2005, by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published prior to 1923.
Sa’d ud Din Mahmud Shabistari was born in Persia, in Shabistar, near Tabriz, about 1250 CE. His best known work, The Secret Rose Garden was written as a reply to questions by a Sufi doctor of Herat. This set of verses uses the rich Sufi allegorical language to explore the path to God.
¶ Index
- Editorial Note
- Introduction
- Acknowledgment
- Part I. The Perfect Face of the Beloved
- Part II. Beauty
- Part III. The Sea and its Pearls
- Part IV. The Journey
- Part V. Time and This Dream-World
- Part VI. Reflections
- Part VII. Divine Inebriation
- Part VIII. Reason and Free-Will
- Part IX. Man: His Capabilities and His Destiny
- Part X. The One
- Part XI. The Self
- Part XII. Idols, Girdles, and Christianity
- Part XIII. Thoughts
- Part XIV. The Light Manifest
- Epilogue