J'ai fait de mon amour un monde hors du monde,
J’ai fait de mon amour un jardin enchanté,
Où dormira mon cœur en une paix profonde,
Où règnera la lune d’or de ta beauté.

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Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 40.

Note: This is not a translation. Al-Ghazali left no known poetry; these quatrains were written by Jean Lahor (pseudonym of Henri Cazalis), who imagined himself into Al-Ghazali's life and thought, adopting the quatrain form because it was current in Omar Khayyam's era.

Text Authorship:

• by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor, no title, written 1907, appears in En Orient, in 1. Les Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, in 1. Les amours, in 1. L'Amour de la Femme, no. 57, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1907 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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• by Ernest Moret (1871 - 1949), "Chant d'Amour", published 1919 [ high voice and piano ], from Sous le ciel de l'Islam, no. 1b, Paris, Éd. Heugel
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• by Théodore Terestchenko (1888 - 1950), "Clair de lune", op. 22 [ medium voice and piano ], from Reflets d'Orient, pour une voix avec accompagnement de piano, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Jules Hamelle, ancienne maison J. Maho
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