Nizami Quotes

“Free is a man who has no desires.”
― Nizami Ganjavi

“The Persian mystic poet is often known as a mirror of the divine and a communer with the Muse who speaks of the mystery which is yonder. The poet is the tongue of the invisible realm' (lisan al-ghayb). Although this particular title has been officially given only to Hafiz by posterity, it is fair to state that all other mystic poets may equally claim it for their own. As Nizāmī in this context opines:

So perfect am I in the magic art of poetry
That I am called the 'Mirror of the Invisible'.”
― Hossein Elahi Ghomshei PhD, Beauty, Love, and Wisdom in Persian Poetry: From Attar to Rumi, Shabistari and Hafiz

“He who sleeps on the Road will lose either his hat or his head.”
― Idries Shah, The Sufis

“Nizami, long before Newton, had posited that the entire scale of creation and nature was permeated by a reciprocally acting gravitational force that he named 'Love':

Attraction works on human temperament its lure
And that attraction sages predicate of love,
So when you ponder this in depth then you'll. perceive
That Eros holds the cosmos up: all stands through love,
And if once Eros lose its grip on Heaven's wheel
The great globe itself would forfeit its bloom and weal.”
― Hossein Elahi Ghomshei PhD, Beauty, Love, and Wisdom in Persian Poetry: From Attar to Rumi, Shabistari and Hafiz

“Quien se duerma en el Camino, perderá el sombrero o la cabeza.”
― Idries Shah, The Sufis