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Like Majnun, ever since their separation she also burned in the fire of longing, but the flames within her were hidden. No smoke rose from them. Layla, too, had her ‘mirror of pain,’ the mirror the doctor holds in front of a dying man’s mouth to see if a breath of life still clouds the glass. But Layla’s mirror was her own soul, which in her loneliness she questioned about her beloved. With whom else could she talk about the thoughts that filled her heart? At night she told her secret to the shadow. She lived between the water of her tears and the fire of her love; as if she was a Peri, a fairy hovering between fire and water. - Nizami (1141 to 1209)
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 12:26:28 +0000

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