A Longing of Being
“No less than one's life is needed / if the call of the Distant One is to be heeded.”
“No less than one's life is needed / if the call of the Distant One is to be heeded.”
The essay explores analogies between interpretation of the Homeric poems in the ancient Hellenic philosophical ‘paideia’ and that of the Qur’an in the Islamic tradition.
This essay on the poetry of Martin Lings regards it as the consummate disclosure of his spirituality: ‘His mysticism is the archetype, his poetry the symbol.’