In the canon
The Masnavi
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1273
- Originally in
- Originally in Persian
- Pages
- Pages 400
A Sufi master pours out thousands of couplets of stories, fables and parables, all circling one ache: the soul is a reed cut from the reed bed, crying to return to God.
From reed-flute hear what tale it tells; what plaint it makes of absence' ills.
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