Sacred Poetry

August 20, 2002

If sacred texts were merely books of law without poetry, humans would have been living for a long time with barren spirits. The Bhagavad Gita, the Bible, the Qur'an: in the midst of our contemporary experience, one thing we need is to revive the poetry found within them.

And this doesn't mean merely to translate them with verbal decoration or to read them in a beautiful style. The poetic translation of the Qur'an pioneered by Mohamad Diponeg

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