The Beloved Quotes Quotes

“beauty—the beloved—brings into existence myriads of lovers (nightingales); every moment she contemplates herself through the eyes of these lovers, hearing them sing her praises. Instant by instant, the one beauty assumes shape after shape, harkening to a perpetual chant of panegyric intoned upon a thousand tongues.”
― Hossein Elahi Ghomshei PhD, Beauty, Love, and Wisdom in Persian Poetry: From Attar to Rumi, Shabistari and Hafiz

“The Persian Sufi poets did not have mere romantic entertainment in mind in the usage of erotic imagery. Rather, they wished to make a metaphysical point about creation, to allude to that primordial Beauty who had unveiled herself on the 'roof of contingency' (bām-i imkān), so that as a result of her theophany, thousands of worlds came into being. A beam of this eternal Beauty struck the rose, and the rose reflected that beauty to the nightingale, filling the distraught bird with melody, frenzy and ecstasy.”
― Hossein Elahi Ghomshei PhD