Frithjof Schuon Archive

Juice becomes wine; thus is it willed by nature.In Islam, drinking wine is forbidden;When wine results, hath not God willed it thus?Let not man’s weakness be blamed.Shaikh Mulay ‘Alî had a brotherIn the mountains who pressed juice from grapes;It seemed to the Shaikh...

The noble fool — a strange possibility;Cervantes described it in a masterly way.Don Quixote did not lack wisdom —But he pushed his madness rather far.When he — the author — invented characters,To whom exaggeration permitted every jest,He did so to express what he...

The Kumbha Mela is a Hindu festivalAt which thousands of pilgrims meet;From every sect, and every part of India,From north to south, and east to west.The water of the Ganges purifies from sins —And so does the vision of naked sadhusThronging through the place. By...

The skeptic asks: why do ye believe in God?We do not wish to plow through this theologically;For what soul and spirit have understood —Gives us life, and gives you the lie.