{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/saab/saab17.htm","path":"isl/saab/saab17.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/saab/saab17.htm","text":"Salaman and Absal, by Jami, tr. Edward Fitzgerald, [1904]\nSal\u00e1m\u00e1n heard\u2014the Sea of his Soul was mov\u2019d,\n And bubbled up with Jewels, and he said;\n \"Oh Shah, I am the Slave of thy Desire,\n \"Dust of thy Throne ascending Foot am I;\n \"Whatever thou Desirest I would do,\n \"But sicken of my own Incompetence;\n \"Not in the Hand of my infirmer Will\n \"To carry into Deed mine own Desire.\n \"Time upon Time I torture mine own Soul,\n \"Devising liberation from the Snare\n \"I languish in. But when upon that Moon\n \"I think, my Soul relapses\u2014and when look\u2014\n \"I leave both Worlds behind to follow her!\"","title":"Salaman and Absal: Sal\u00e1m\u00e1n and Abs\u00e1l...","type":"page"}