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["You bring down Heav'en to vulgar Earth;your maker like yourselves you
make,
"You quake to own a reign of Law, you pray the Law its laws to break;
"You pray, but hath your thought e'er weighed how empty vain the prayer
must be,
"That begs a boon already giv'en, or craves a change of law to see?
"Say, Man, deep learned in the Scheme that orders mysteries sublime,
"How came it this was Jesus, that was Judas from the birth of Time?[1]]
Sufi Hajj Abdu in The Kasidah by Sir Richard Burton (first published in
1880 ).
[1]this fierce attack on monotheistic religions is a reminder that hajj
abdu - like Omar Khayyam before him - was of the Mystical School of the
Arab Sufi poet Ma'arri ((BORN 973 AD - DIED 1057 AD), a graduate of the
secret school of the Brethern of Purity of Basrah, who sung the
supremacy of the mystical traditions (To which he refers by 'the
Indian'S Deed') over the dry theistic creeds, in his Luzumiyat
(meditations) :
[The holy fights by Moslem heroes fought,
The saintly works by Christian hermits wrought
And those of Jewry or of Sabian creed --
Their valour reaches not the Indian's Deed
Whom zeal and awe mystically inspire
To cast his body on the flaming pyre.
Yet is man's death a long, long sleep of lead
And all his life a waking. O'er our dead
The PRAYERS are chanted, hopeless farewells taken;
And there we lie, never to stir again.
Shall I so fear in mother earth to rest?
How soft a cradle is thy mother's breast!
When once the viewless spirit from me is gone,
By rains unfreshed let my bones rot on! ]
[Muslims are stumbling, Christians all astray
Jews wildered, Magians far on error's way.
We mortals are composed of two great schools:
Enlightened sages or else religious fools. ]
vive!
Goaty-Yogi Azo.
Humble servant of Hajj Abdu .
Follower of the["..teaching of the school abhorr'd
That maketh man automaton, mind a secretion, soul a word."]
and also of: the:["..matter-mongers prompt to prate;
Of jelly-speck development and apes that grew to man's estate." ]
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