The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû Al-Yazdi [pseud.]: A Lay of the Higher Law Translated and Annotated by His Friend and Pupil, F. B. |
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The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû Al-Yazdi [Pseud. ]: A Lay of the Higher Law ... Richard Francis Burton,Isabel Burton No preview available - 2013 |
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Ahriman Ahwar AL-YAZDI Allah Allah's Arab Aristotle atom beasts believe birth blood brain breath Buddhist called camel-bell Carl Vogt Christian clay Confucians Confucius conscience creature dark dead Death divine doctrine dream Eastern equal Erthe Eternal evil existence eyes Faith fancy Fate fear foolish Fools foreknowledge future Gehenna Gnostic Guebre Hajî Hâjî Abdû haply hath hear heart Heav'en Hebrew Hell Hence Higher Law Hindu holds Holy Houris human idea ignorance infinite Ishwara Kasidah Kismet light live Maker man's mankind Marcionites matter means Meccah mind modern moral Moslem Nature Nature's ne'er nought o'er Omar Khayyám Omniscient pale personal deity Pilgrim poem pre-Adamite quoth race rav'ening Richard Burton Rubáiyát Sage says seek sense Sir Richard sorrow Soul spirit strive Sûff Sufi thee thin blue line thine things thou thought tinkling tion Truth vita wail whence wond'ring word Zâhid
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Page 26 - ... final causes; the greatness and littleness of man, his far-reaching aims, his short duration, the curtain hung over his futurity; the disappointments of life, the defeat of good, the success of evil, physical pain, mental anguish; the prevalence and intensity of sin, the pervading idolatries, the corruptions, the dreary, hopeless irreligion, that condition of the whole race so fearfully yet exactly described in the apostle's words, "having no hope and without God in the world...
Page 25 - To consider the world in its length and breadth, its various history, the many races of man, their starts, their fortunes, their mutual alienation, their conflicts; and then their ways, habits, governments, forms of worship; their enterprises, their aimless courses, their random achievements and acquirements, the impotent conclusion of longstanding facts, the tokens so faint and broken of a superintending design, the blind evolution of what turn out to be great powers or truths, the progress of things,...
Page 39 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost...
Page 12 - All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own.
Page 33 - You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house ; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed, And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse. LVI For 'Is' and 'IS-NOT' though with Rule and Line, And 'UP-AND-DOWN...
Page 18 - Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.
Page 13 - Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all ? Why are they then baptized for the dead?
Page 26 - ... the tokens so faint and broken, of a superintending design, the blind evolution of what turn out to be great powers or truths, the progress of things, as if from unreasoning elements, not towards final causes, the greatness and littleness of man, his far-reaching aims, his short duration, the curtain hung over his futurity, the disappointments of life, the defeat of good, the success of evil, physical pain, mental anguish, the prevalence and intensity of sin, the...
Page 41 - Into this Universe, and why not knowing, Nor whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing: And out of it, as Wind along the Waste, I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing.
Page 34 - A mansion infested by age and by sorrow ; the seat of malady, harassed with pains, haunted with the quality of darkness, and incapable of standing long; such a mansion of the vital soul, let its occupier always cheerfully quit.