The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam - The Original Classic Edition. Khayyam Omar

(murshid), and through it receives a similar inspiration, and acquires a full perception of all that he possesses, just as the pupil learns from his

       master. As the lover delights in the presence of his sweetheart, so the Dervish rejoices in the company of his beloved preceptor. The sweetheart is the object of a worldly affection; but the preceptor commands a spiritual attachment.

       The curls or ringlets of the beloved are the grateful praises of the preceptor, tending to bind the affections of the Dervish-pupil; the moles on her face signify that when the pupil, at times, beholds the total absence of all worldly wants on the part of the preceptor,

       he also abandons all the desires of both worlds--he, perhaps, even goes so far as to desire nothing else in life than his preceptor; the furrows on the brow of the beloved one, which they compare to verses of the Koran, mean the light of the heart of the murshid: they are compared to the verses of the Koran, because the attributes of God, in accordance with the injunction of the Prophet: > are possessed by the sheikh (or murshid).

       Perhaps I can do no better than to quote one of the foremost authorities on Sufism[3] in regard to Omar's teachings.