dikt av Sidna Shaykh Dr Abdalqadir as-Sufi
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This contains a great secret
Your belief about Him
Is the extent of your knowledge of Him
The extent of your knowledge of Him
Is the extent of your own nafs
The nature of your knowledge of Him
Is none other than your own
Knowledge of your nafs
Your limiting of Him is the
Bounding about of your own limitless nafs
Your Lord is to you what you are to Him
And there is no escaping this
You will not do other than you intend
You will not hold Him to be other than
What He holds you to believe
For you are confined in His confining of you
So let your belief in Him soar
Out of all association
That He may release you out of all forms
And all worlds
Realise that you know nothing of Him
Till you surrender your nafs to obliteration
And achieve the goal
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Denna dikt gavs till Hajj Issa Bryce av Shaykh Dr Abdalqadir as-Sufi medan de bodde i zawiyyan Bristol Gardens på tidigt 70-tal.
