Endnotes

1. A dry wind from the Sahara that prevails in Egypt about fifty days. Hence its name⁠—Khamsin. ↩

2. I have tried to embody in these stanzas the idea, shared partly by the Sufi, that God and the Universe are one. ↩

3. Famous Sufi poet of Persia. ↩

4. Famous Sufi poet of Persia. ↩

5. Sufi philosopher and poet of Arabia. ↩

6. Famous Sufi poet of Persia. ↩

7. Sufi philosopher and poet of Arabia. ↩

8. Sufi philosopher and poet of Arabia. ↩

9. Famous Sufi poet of Persia. ↩

10. Famous Sufi poet of Persia. ↩

11. The foremost Sufi poet of Arabia. ↩