I’ve quoted from these before, but here are two of my favorite ghazals in their entirety: (If the videos on the other pages on this site don’t appear for you, try emptying your cache and reloading the page) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0CRm37FQr4 Translation: The outward ascetic has no knowledge of our state …
Fire on the mountain
Ibn al-Fāriḍ Translation: Don’t consider me to be a pretender in love my affection for you is natural, without affectation Even if my spirit were in my hands, I would hand it over to the one who announces your arrival, and it’d still be a bargain You are my duties and my voluntary prayers…