Passion Before Me, My Fate Behind -- Passion Before Me, My Fate Behind -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Plan of the Work -- On Translation, Transliteration, Pronunciation, and Time -- Introduction -- Life -- On the Sufi Path -- Words of Love and Longing -- Luminaries -- Chapter 1: Mystical Improvisations -- Master Poet -- Homage to al-Mutanabbī -- Transformations -- Riddles and Rubā'īyāt -- Chapter 2: Love's Secrets -- Tryst -- Love Talk -- Hymns of Devotion -- Sun and Full Moon -- "You Have Been Remembered" -- Chapter 3: Joined at the Crossroads -- The Changing Ode -- Sacred Fire -- Turn Aside at Ṭai -- Holy Pilgrimage -- "Greetings from Su'ād" -- Chapter 4: The Beloved's Wine -- Blood-Red Wine -- A Liberated Spirit -- Two Intoxications -- Drunk by a Glance -- Immortal Wine -- Wine of the Covenant -- Chapter 5: Poem of the Sufi Way in "T"-Major -- The Great Ode -- Together Alone -- Shifting Guises -- Love's Sweet Season -- Spirit and Matter -- Yesterday's Tomorrow -- Manifest Sites -- Shadow Play -- Poet and Guide -- Covering Reality -- Two Masters -- Conclusion: The Poetry of Recollection -- I But not "Me" -- Content and Form -- Beginning to End -- Meditation and Recollection -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.