Description: In these pages, superbly translated by Professor Bruce Lawrence, the reader comes face to face with God's Beloved. By the end, it will be clear why Amir Khusraw, the famous poet desciple, considered a chest of gold tankas a trifling price to pay for a pair of leather sandals belonging to the shaykh.
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I. Assembly 34 Monday, the 29th of Dhuʾl-Hijja, A.H. 709 (18 June 1309)
I obtained the blessing of kissing the master's feet.... And he continued to speak of THE MIRACLES (karamat) OF SAINTS. "There was once a blind saint. An adversary came and sat down in front of him, wanting to test the saint. To himself he thought, 'Since this person is blind, there must also be some defect in his inner person!' Turning to the blind man, the adversary started to ask, 'What is the sign of a saint?' But as he was asking the question, a fly came and alighted on his nose. The man swatted it away. But it came back. He swatted it away again. A third time this happened, and in the meanwhile he managed to ask his question. 'The least of the signs of a saint, ' replied the blind man, 'is that no fly alights on his nose!' "