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مَحْمُود الشَّبِسْتَرِي

Maḥmūd Shabistarī

quddisa sirruhu — may his secret be sanctified

his portrait is written, not drawn

His portrait is his lamp: no image survives, and none is needed.

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From His Tongueمِنْ كَلَامِهِ

Reflection is going from the false toward the Real, to behold within the part of the Absolute Whole.

Mahmūd Shabestarī - quoted from the Gulshan-i Rāz