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"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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| Monday, October 30, 2006 |
| Two sufis go to court |
One day two dressed as wandering sufis came
Before the courts to lodge a legal claim.
The judge took them aside. 'This can't be right,
For sufis to provoke a lawyers' fight,'
He said. 'You wear the robes of resignation,
So what have you to do with litigation?
If you're the men to pay a lawyer's fee,
Off with your sufi clothes immediately!
And if you're sufis as at first I thought,
It's ignorance that brings you to this court.
I'm just a judge, unversed in your affair,
But I'm ashamed to see the clothes you wear;
You should wear women's veils -- that would be less
Dishonest than your present holy dress.'
How will you solve love's secret lore if you --
Not man, not woman -- glide between the two?
If on its path loves forces you to yield,
Then do so gladly, throw away your shield;
Resist and you will die, your soul is dead --
To ward off your defeat bow down your head!
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