"While mankind remains mere baggage in the world It will be swept along, as in a boat, asleep. What can they see in sleep? What real merit or punishment can there be?"
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Enclosed Garden Of Truth (Hadiqat al-Haqiqa wa Shari'at al-Tariqa): translated by John Stephenson, 1910
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Sanai
1080 – 1131
Hakim Abul-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam Sanā'ī Ghaznavi more commonly known as Sanai or Sanai Ghaznavi (1080 - 1131/1141) was a Persian poet. He was poet from Ghazni who lived his life in Ghazni in medieval Iran, which is now located in Afghanistan.
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