https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 28 Oct 2026 05:57:18 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/abi-i-khayr-abu-said/22702/ https://wist.info/abi-i-khayr-abu-said/22702/#respond Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:54:45 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=22702 The true saint goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment.

Abu Said ibn Abi 'I-Khayr (AD 967–1049) Persian Sufi mystic and poet [a.k.a., Abusa'id Abolkhayr, Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr, Sheikh Abusaeid or Abu Sa'eed]
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In Reynold A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (1921). ]]> https://wist.info/abi-i-khayr-abu-said/22702/feed/ 0 22702 https://wist.info/abi-i-khayr-abu-said/22805/ https://wist.info/abi-i-khayr-abu-said/22805/#respond Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:22:14 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=22805 What sweeter than this in the world!
Friend met friend and the lover joined his Beloved.

Abu Said ibn Abi 'I-Khayr (AD 967–1049) Persian Sufi mystic and poet [a.k.a., Abusa'id Abolkhayr, Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr, Sheikh Abusaeid or Abu Sa'eed]
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