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About Umar Ibn al-FaridTimeline (1181 - 1235) |
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Whispering, then listening close (from The Poem of the Sufi Way)
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Whispering, then listening close
from the vision of one casting away his all, instantly, out of an omnipotent hand. Thus I read the knowledge of the scholars in a single word, and I reveal all the worlds to me with a simple glance. I hear the many voices of those who pray in every tongue in a space of time shorter than a flash. And I bring before me what before had been too far away to bear, in a blink of my eye. I inhale the bouquet of gardens and the sweet scents clinging to the skirts of the four winds, in a simple breath. I survey the far horizons round me in a momentary thought, and cross the seven heavens with a single step.
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