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If we compare Sa'di with Hafiz, we find that both of them based their theory of life upon the same Sufic pantheism.

From The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2 by Ross, James

The "Bustan," or "Tree-Garden," is the more sober and theoretical, treating of the various problems and questions of ethics, and filled with Mystic and Sufic descriptions of love.

From The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1 by Gottheil, Richard James Horatio

In fact, we are often at an entire loss to tell where reality ends and Sufic vacuity commences.

From The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1 by Gottheil, Richard James Horatio

The idea of the height which he strove to attain, and the steps by which he mounted towards it, may be fathered from the Sufic poet Jami.

From The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Wright, Thomas