The personal Lord speaks only in symbols his eloquence is all in enigmas. And at a mysterious sign of recognition the visionary is overwhelmed by such a power of love that he loses consciousness. When he comes to himself, his Companion reveals to him 'I am knowledge, I am he who knows and I am what is known.'
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O you who believe let those whom your right hands possess and those of you who have not attained to puberty ask permission of you three times before the morning prayer, and when you put off your clothes at midday in summer, and after the prayer of the nMost surely in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of the night and the day, and the ships that run in the sea with that which profits men, and the water that Allah sends down from the cloud, then gives life with it to the earth after its death and spreads in it all (kinds of) animals, and the changing of the winds and the clouds made subservient between the heaven and the earth, there are signs for a people who understand.
The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.
And most surely he is tenacious in the love of wealth.
On the day when the hypocritical men and the hypocritical women will say to those who believe Wait for us, that we may have light from your light it shall be said Turn back and seek a light. Then separation would be brought about between them, with a wall
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