Khalili, a major contemporary Sufi poet of Afghanistan and a refugee of the Russian invasion in 1979, died in 1987. In addition to poetry, he is author of over 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.