The Wisdom of Khayyam

“There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.”Omar Khayyam 1048-1131Even ol' Omar seemed perturbed by the enigma of the world in which he lived - opaque and impenetrable. If one born at the pinnacle of the Golden Age of Islam in Naishipur was confronted with such a dilemma how is the Western mind to grasp even a kernal of understanding?