A major contemporary Sufi poet of Afghanistan, Khalili was a refugee of the 1979 Russian invasion and died in 1987. In addition to poetry, he is author of more than 20 standard works on history, literature, and philosophy. This selection of his Quatrains, in a trilingual Persian, Arabic, and English edition, has been hailed in the Arab, Central Asian, and Far Eastern worlds of thought and literature as a masterpiece, and represents the presentation of both traditional and contemporary themes within the classical idiom.