“It is best to avoid low company, whether they come in peace or in war.”
An argosy of fables, p. 245
about himself, Extracted from Baharīstān-e- Jami
Nur Adine Abderramão Jami , também conhecido como Maulaná Nuraldim Abderramão ou Abderramão Nuraldim Maomé Dashti, ou simplesmente como Jami ou Djāmī e na Turquia como Molla Cami , foi um poeta persa sunita que é conhecido por suas realizações como um estudioso prolífico e escritor de literatura mística sufi. Ele era principalmente um poeta-teólogo proeminente da escola de Ibn Arabi e um Sũfī Khwājagānī, reconhecido por sua eloquência e por sua análise da metafísica da misericórdia. Suas obras poéticas mais famosas são Haft Awrang, Tuhfat al-Ahrar, Laila e Majnun, Fatihat al-Shabab, Lawa'ih, Al-Durrah al-Fakhirah. Jami pertencia à ordem sufi Naqshbandi. Wikipedia
“It is best to avoid low company, whether they come in peace or in war.”
An argosy of fables, p. 245
about himself, Extracted from Baharīstān-e- Jami
“Good intentions are useless in the absence of common-sense.”
An argosy of fables, p. 240
about himself, Extracted from Baharīstān-e- Jami
“Happy is the man who knows the true from the false, and refuses to accept less.”
An argosy of fables, p. 243
about himself, Extracted from Baharīstān-e- Jami
An argosy of fables, p. 242
about himself, Extracted from Baharīstān-e- Jami
“The wise man refuses to be led beyond his own depth.”
An argosy of fables, p. 242
about himself, Extracted from Baharīstān-e- Jami
Lawāih, p. 20
Lawāih
“I was trapped in love
And this trap is enough for me.”
Haft Awrang, p. 101
Poetry, Poetry from Haft Awrang
“How a pleasant word of an old lover that said
When there is lovem there is no comfort.”
Joseph and Zuleika, p. 254
Poetry, Poetry from Joseph and Zuleika
Joseph and Zuleika, p. 113
Poetry, Poetry from Joseph and Zuleika
Joseph and Zuleika, p. 78
Poetry, Poetry from Joseph and Zuleika
Alluding to Rabia of Basra, Nafahat al-Uns, as quoted in A Literary History of Persia https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Literary_History_of_Persia/q_n1DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA299 by E. G. Browne, p. 299.