{"id":2446,"date":"2018-11-15T12:53:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T11:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2020-08-18T13:37:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T12:37:35","slug":"fruit-without-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/fruit-without-seeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit without Seeds!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/church_farangis_g_yegane_3a.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2448\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/church_farangis_g_yegane_3a_small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1229\" height=\"875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/church_farangis_g_yegane_3a_small.png 1229w, https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/church_farangis_g_yegane_3a_small-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/church_farangis_g_yegane_3a_small-768x547.png 768w, https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/church_farangis_g_yegane_3a_small-1024x729.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1229px) 100vw, 1229px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fruit without Seeds!<\/strong><br \/>\nA poem by Manuchehr Jamali, translation Gita Yegane Arani<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fruit_without_seeds_jamali.pdf\">This text as a PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Man knows that truth is a fruit without seeds,<br \/>\nTruth, he knows, must pacify and satisfy your palate,<\/p>\n<p>Hadn\u2019t it been paradises fruit that he\u2019d eaten,<br \/>\nAnd of which he\u2019d spat out its seeds in disgust,<br \/>\nAnd said why God would have to place in fruit with sweetness,<br \/>\nteeth breaking rocks,<\/p>\n<p>The devil though knew, that ripe fruit would bear heavy stones.<br \/>\nAnd seeds of \u201cvisionary fruits\u201d would break the \u201cquestions\u201d of the teeth!<\/p>\n<p>The devil planted the seeds, that man spat with anger,<br \/>\nAnd over time grew another plant and he\u2019d create another paradise;<br \/>\none that would produce fruit without seeds, and sights without questions!<\/p>\n<p>And man, thrown out of paradise for eating God\u2019s fruit,<br \/>\nWas thus put back into God\u2019s paradise,<\/p>\n<p>And went with Satan\u2019s paradisical insights,<br \/>\nOffering taste and comfort,<\/p>\n<p>And: the fruit, within him, would contain no seeds of questions!<\/p>\n<p>Tired from painfully planting the seeds and cultivation,<br \/>\nAnd from the burden of growing and work,<br \/>\nThe needed task became a bane.<br \/>\nSince then the devil would be in heaven,<br \/>\nThat \u201cknowledge without doubts\u201d was achieved,<br \/>\nAnd a truth of \u201cfruit without seeds\u201d known,<br \/>\nAnd the truth without question be swallowed.<\/p>\n<p>And man did not know that truth is the Creator,<br \/>\nWhose seeds become questions,<br \/>\nAnd that the knowledge that these questions developed, he would not find,<br \/>\nand thus not have the truth.<\/p>\n<p>So he named the devil\u2019s paradise, God\u2019s paradise,<br \/>\nAnd God\u2019s paradise would be named: a lie that\u2019s past!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.farangis.de\/blog\/at-the-church\"><strong>Art &gt; by Farangis G. Yegane<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Re-edited Nov. 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fruit without Seeds! A poem by Manuchehr Jamali, translation Gita Yegane Arani This text as a PDF Man knows that truth is a fruit without seeds, Truth, he knows, must pacify and satisfy your palate, Hadn\u2019t it been paradises fruit that he\u2019d eaten, And of which he\u2019d spat out its seeds in disgust, And said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,17,43,38],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-2446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-generally","category-paintings","category-poeticized-and-plain-thoughts","category-where-ethics-meet","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2869,"href":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions\/2869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}