' The Religion of Love '...

O Marvel! a garden amidst the flames.


My heart has become capable of every form:


it is a pasture for gazelles and a convent for Christian monks,


and a temple for idols and the pilgrim's Kaa'ba,


and the tables of the Torah and the book of the Quran.


I follow the religion of Love:

whatever way Love's camels take,


that is my religion and my faith.



-Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi
'Tarjuman al-Ashwaq'.
Theosophical Publishing House, 1911. Poem XI