Fariduddin Attar

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Lebte 1145–1221, im Alter von 76

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1145–1221
Alter 76

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Aktualisiert 08.09.2026

Fariduddin Attar (persisch فرید الدین عطار, DMG Farīd ad-Dīn-e ʿAṭṭār; * um 1136 in Nischapur (Persien); † 1220 oder 3. November 1221) war ein persischer Dichter und islamischer Mystiker (siehe Sufismus).

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Fariduddin Attar

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I shall grasp the soul's skirt with my hand and stamp on the world's head with my foot.

— Translated by Bernard Lewis, Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew Poems (2001), p. 119

Fariduddin Attar

sagteundated

The seaWill be a seaWhatever the drop's philosophy.

— Reported in Laurence Galian, The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis (2003), p. 285

Fariduddin Attar

sagteundated

Your face is neither infinite nor ephemeral. You can never see your own face,only a reflection, not the face itself.

— "Looking For Your Own Face", translated by Coleman Barks, The Hand of Poetry: Five Mystic Poets of Persia (1993)

Fariduddin Attar

sagteundated

Don't be dead or asleep or awake. Don't be anything. What you most want,what you travel around wishing to find,lose yourself as lovers lose themselves,and you'll be that.

— "Looking For Your Own Face", translated by Coleman Barks, The Hand of Poetry (1993)

Fariduddin Attar

sagteundated