OH COFFEE, YOU DISPEL THE WORRIES OF THE GREAT, you point the way to those who
have wandered from the path of knowledge. Coffee is the drink of the friends of God, and
of His servants who seek wisdom.
As coffee steeps in the cup it gives off a musky aroma and turns the colour of ink. No one
can understnad the truth until he drinks of its frothy goodness. Those who condemn coffee
as causing man harm are fools in the eyes of God.
Coffee is the common man's gold, and like gold it brings to every man the feeling of
luxury and nobility. Coffee differs from pure, gentle milk only in its taste and colour.
Take time in your preparation of coffee and God will be with you and bless you and your
table. Where coffee is served there is grace and splendour and friendship and happiness.
All cares vanish as the coffee cup is raised to the lips. Coffee flows through your body
as freely as your life's blood, refreshing all that it touches; look you at the youth and
vigour of those who drink it.
Whoever tastes coffee will forever forswear the liquor of the grape. Oh drink of God's
glory, your purity brings to man only well being and nobility.
by Sheik Ansari Djezeri
Hanball Abd-al-Kadir, 1857
