Note 4 — OMAR KHAYYAM
Edward FitzGerald translation
Some of Omar's Rubaiyat warn us of the danger of greatness, the instability of fortune, and while advocating charity to all men, recommending us to be too intimate with none. Attar makes Nizam ul Mulk use the very words of his friend Omar [Rub. xxviii.], «When Nizam ul Mulk was in the Agony (of Death) he said, ‹Oh God! I am passing away in the hand of the Wind.›»