Sharafuddin Maneri: O God, Your mercy is a boundless ocean:

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O God, Your mercy is a boundless ocean:

by Sharafuddin Maneri
(1263 - 1381) Timeline

English version by
Paul Jackson

Muslim / Sufi

14th Century

O God, Your mercy is a boundless ocean:
I would be satisfied with only one drop of it.
If the impurity of all sinful creatures
Were to be immersed but once in that vast expanse,
It would not darken such a timeless ocean:
Rather, the work of the world would turn into light!

-- from Sharafuddin Maneri: The Hundred Letters (Classics of Western Spirituality), by Sharafuddin Maneri / Edited by Paul Jackson

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Themes

Light

Water

Recommended Books

	A Book of Uncommon Prayer, Edited by Theo Dorgan
	Early Sufi Masters: Sharafuddin Maneri and Abdullah Ansari, by Masood Ali Khan / S. Ram
	In Quest of God: Maneri's Second Collection of 150 Letters, by Sharafuddin Maneri / Translated by Paul Jackson
	Sharafuddin Maneri: The Hundred Letters (Classics of Western Spirituality), by Sharafuddin Maneri / Edited by Paul Jackson

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