Attar Quotes Quotes

“Attar believed the only commendable and worthwhile connection between man and God to be a Lover Beloved relationship. Like many other Muslim mystics before him, Attar emphasized that the superiority and pre-eminence of Adam over the other angels lay in Adam's/ man's love-passion and agony. In fact, in Attarr's spiritual teachings, the cure for all psychological and spiritual ailments lies in the transformative suffering and passion of love (dard). That is why he asks for that passion to be increased:

   Give me an ounce of pain, O you
   Who cure all. pain, for left without
   Your pain, my soul will die.
   To heretics let heresy apply,
   And to the faithful—grant them faith;
   But for the heart of Attar, let
   One ounce of your pain remain.”
― Hossein Elahi Ghomshei PhD, Beauty, Love, and Wisdom in Persian Poetry: From Attar to Rumi, Shabistari and Hafiz