' 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