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Podcast: Poems of Annihilation
Episode: Do not cut the tree for the sake of the sparrow
Description: Letter 69: Retaining or Abandoning Possessions in the Hundred Letters Maktubat-i Sadi of Ibn Yahya Sharafuddin Maneri translated into English by Paul Jackson in the classics of western spirituality decluttering minimalism to work or not to work begging Adam a farmer repast Bayazid “even the fact of a person’s asking is a gift of God” “give me something for the sake of this sparrow” medieval sufism Indo-Muslim Persian 1263-1381