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مَكْتَبَةُ كَتِيبَةِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ نُصَيْرٍ

The Egyptian Epistle - Muhammad ibn Muqatil al-Qati'i

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I have composed verses in description of this epistle which fall below its true beauties in excellence:

Here it is, the ancient [wine] of the Meanings,

attained by every Junbulani.

A wondrous work that boasts of beauty,

with a clear, radiant, and pure [essence].

Attributes were negated therein from Him for whom

no equivalent or second is claimed.

After His existence was witnessed by sight,

and the rank of the Gate and the Station.

In one manuscript: al-Hormuzan al-Dehqan:

Then what we narrated was clarified

by the soul, the eye, and the tongue.

Without deviation and without falsehood,

toward the desire of the season of the Gardens.

Then I returned all matters entirely to Him

in the inception and the existence.

And that nothing occurs except

what He willed of the obedient and the criminal.

And no salvation exists except

for every possessor of protected meanings.

A favor upon him without effort,

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