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From His Tongue — Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭārمِنْ كَلَامِهِ

It is related that a Zoroastrian was told to convert to Islam. He said, “If Islam is what Bayazid ق does, I don’t have the strength for it and I can’t do it. If it’s what you do, I don’t have any need of it.

Farīd-ud-dīn Attār ق. Quoted from Tadhkirāt al-Awliya. Translation by Paul Losensky.