Mystic Poetry of Attar | for Meditation & Contemplation

“The sea will be the sea, whatever the drop's philosophy.”
Attar, Sheikh Farīd-Ud-Dīn (1145-1220) is one of the oldest and most prized mystic poets of Persia. His works were the inspiration of Rumi and many others. Rumi praises Attar as such: “Attar roamed the seven cities of love - We are still just in one alley.”
Attar took his name from his occupation. He was a druggist, perfumer and a doctor in addition to being a poet. Attar saw as many as 500 patients a day in his shop where he prescribed herbal extractions/medicine which he made himself.
In his shop, he also wrote while seeing patients. Attar wrote 114 pieces, the same number of suras in the holy book of Koran. About thirty of his works survived. To name a few of his works are love stories, biographies of saints, Asrarnameh ("The Book of Secrets"), a collection of quatrains, Illahinameh ("The Book of God") and the last not the least, his most well known masterpiece of Mantiq at-Tayr ("The Bird of the Sky") known as "The Conference of the Birds"
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