Sublime

the technique of Islamic Sufâsm at least takes good care to forbid the use of music in worship, and to emphasize the necessity of daily congregational prayers in order to counteract the possible anti-social effects of solitary contemplation.

Ben informed me that those lines were written by the thirteenth-century Persian poet Sa’adi, one of the most beloved figures in Iranian culture.

A poet must be the master of simile, metaphor, and form, and of the precise use of vernacular and grammar, implication and innuendo.

अगर हम इस सात्त्विक काव्य-प्रेम की उपेक्षा कर दें तो, मेरी तुच्छ सम्मति में, हिन्दी कविता के लिए यह कोई बहुत अच्छी बात नहीं होगी।

राष्ट्रकवि श्री मैथिलीशरण गुप्तजी

(For Muslims, to speak of Muhammad as the author of the Quran is a surpassing blasphemy; only God could have authored such a miracle, we are told; Muhammad was just a holy stenographer, if you will, taking divine dictation.)