Farid
c.1173-1266    93 years
aka:  Baba Sheikh Farid Shakarganj, Farid-ul-Din
Masaud Shakar Ganj, Ibn al-Farid, Attar Farid al-din
Persian:فریدالدین عطار

Punjabi/Persian Sufi, mystic, poet, singer

wrote "Poem of the Sufi Way" (Nazm al-suluk/al-
Ta'iyah al Kubra).
   When Kabir’s disciples heard they said, “Farid is
going to pass by here – let us receive him. It will be
a happy occasion. For two days the two of you can
talk.”
And Kabir said, “We should definitely meet.
Everyone will be very happy.”
Farid was welcomed. Farid and Kabir embraced
each other. Their eyes were filled with tears of joy
but no dialogue happened between them. They
parted, and the disciples were very disappointed.
As they were parting the disciples said, “But you
have not said anything!”
And they replied, “What can be said? What he
knows, I also know.”
Farid said, “What I know, Kabir also knows, so what
can we talk about? We are not even two people who
can talk – at some level we are one. On that level
words are unnecessary...”

                                                     --Osho
                              The Path of Meditation, ch. 3
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