Anecdotes Of Destiny And Ehrengard (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
As he read and re-read the Koran he became so absorbed in the thought of the angels that his soul dwelt with them more than with his mother or his brothers, his teachers or fellow-students or any other people of Shiraz. He repeated to himself the words of the Holy Book: “… by the angels, who tear forth the souls of men with violence, and by those who draw forth the souls of others with gentleness, by those who glide swimmingly through the air with the commands of God, by those who precede and usher the righteous into Paradise, and by those who subordinately govern the affairs of this world …” “The throne of God,” he thought, “will needs be placed so sky-high that the eye of man cannot reach it, and the mind of man reels before it. But the radiant angels move between God’s azure halls and our dark houses and schoolrooms. It should be possible to us to see them and communicate with them. “Birds,” he reflected, “must be, of all creatures, most like angels. Says not the Scripture: ‘Whatever moveth both in heaven and on earth worshippeth God, and the angels also’—and surely the birds move both in heaven and on earth.
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