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Shabistari, Mahmud - The Gulshan-i raz - All of the world has appeared by His Light
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Garden of Mystery – The Gulshan-i raz of Mahmud Shabistari
All of the world has appeared by His Light
yet how can He be revealed through the world?
The Essential Light is not in the manifestations
Its glorious majesty would devastate them
Let go of your intellect and be with the Real
A bat's eye cannot bear the sun's brilliance
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As that light burns even a pure angel's wings
it would scorch the whole of reason head to foot
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If you want to view the sun's bright source
you'll have to see it on an intermediary surface
Though human eyes can't bear this brilliance
they can view the sun reflected on water
Since the sun's brilliance here is diminished
your perception of it can be maintained