| About the Mantiq al-Tayr |
"And silently their shining Lord replies:
'I am a mirror set before your eyes,
And all who come before my splendor see
Themselves, their own unique reality ...
... The Simurgh, Truth's last flawless jewel, the light
In which you will be lost to mortal sight,
Dispersed to nothingness until once more
You find in Me the selves you were before.'"
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| Saturday, October 21, 2006 |
| The hoopoe answers him |
The hoopoe said: "This devil never leaves
Until the Self has gone; if he deceives
You now, his cunning is your own deceit --
Your wishes are the devil, you the cheat!
If you accomplish one desire, a shoal
Of struggling demons rises in your soul;
The world's a furnace and a prison cell,
The devil's province, an unending hell --
Draw back your hand from it if you would win
An unmolested life secure from sin.
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