Hakim Sana'i - The Walled Garden of Truth - hadiqatu'l-haqiqat

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Hakim Sana'i The Walled Garden of Truth - hadiqatu'l-haqiqat translated by D. L. Pendlebury Hakim Sanai’s The Walled Garden of Truth (Ḥadīqat al-Ḥaqīqa) is one of the earliest major masterpieces of Persian Sufi poetry. Through stories, parables, philosophical reflections, and mystical verses, Sanai describes the human journey from worldly attachment and superficial knowledge toward direct knowledge of God (maʿrifa). A central theme is the overcoming of the nafs, the ego or lower self. Human beings must see through pride, self-deception, attachment, and the illusions of worldly existence in order to perceive the deeper reality behind appearances. Sanai brings together reason, love, ascetic discipline, devotion, and mystical insight. He repeatedly stresses that intellectual or outward religious knowledge is insufficient by itself. True knowledge must transform the person inwardly. Thus he criticizes both the scholar who possesses knowledge without spiritual realization and the believer who remains attached merely to external forms. The “walled garden” ultimately becomes an image of the inner realm of the human being, where divine truth can be unveiled. The path into this garden requires self-transcendence, love, humility, and the realization that God is not merely an object of thought but the ultimate Reality underlying existence. The Walled Garden of Truth is a poetic map of spiritual transformation: by overcoming the ego and seeing through the illusions of the outward world,

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