Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi Quotes

“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.”
― Richard Francis Burton, Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi

“And still the Weaver plies his loom,
whose warp and woof is wretched Man
Weaving th' unpattern'd dark design,
so dark we doubt it owns a plan”
― Sir Richard Francis Burton, Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi

“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.
All other Life is living Death, a world where none but Phantoms dwell,
A breath, a wind, a sound, a voice, a tinkling of the camel-bell.

Richard Burton, The Kasidah, 1880”
― Richard Burton, Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi