1902. As an encouragement to study and a key to the riches of the Sufism there are in Omar, the following interpretation is offered. On opposite pages are given Fitzgerald's rendering and what Sufis recognize in it. The Sufi speaking is not always a contemporary with Omar, nor a Persian or Mohammedan. A Sufi is simply a mystic in Mohammedan garb. The Sufi speaking is now and then, though rarely, using phraseology which is Western.