The metaphors that Sumnun the Lover used to express the ineffable experience of this love, of which he was only a fragile vessel, are not taken from the vocabulary of worldly love. Rather, they are perfectly chaste, lucid, almost immaterial:"I have separated my heart from this world— My heart and Thou are not separate. And when slumber closes my eyes,I find Thee between the eye and the lid." (A 10:310)
-Annemarie Schimmel
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