Endnotes

  1. A dry wind from the Sahara that prevails in Egypt about fifty days. Hence its name⁠—Khamsin. ↩

  2. I have tried to embody in these stanzas the idea, shared partly by the Sufi, that God and the Universe are one. ↩

  3. Famous Sufi poet of Persia. ↩

  4. Famous Sufi poet of Persia. ↩

  5. Sufi philosopher and poet of Arabia. ↩

  6. Famous Sufi poet of Persia. ↩

  7. Sufi philosopher and poet of Arabia. ↩

  8. Sufi philosopher and poet of Arabia. ↩

  9. Famous Sufi poet of Persia. ↩

  10. Famous Sufi poet of Persia. ↩

  11. The foremost Sufi poet of Arabia. ↩