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The Clarification of Wills in the Forms of Acts of Worship - Volume 1 - Habib Eid Al-Saleh

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Its ultimate goal1 is manifest from the outward beauty

While its Inward (Batin) is veiled from every eye.

He [the poet] also pointed in his poetry to the obligation of practicing dissimulation (Taqiya), saying:

And I followed the way the Callers followed for her beauty

By shedding piety (Al-Tuqa) and wearing dissimulation (Al-Taqiya).

The meaning of "piety" (Al-Tuqa) here is the casting off of fear in the path of its [the Truth's] love, because Tuqa means fear (Makhāfa), as Al-Sayyid al-Muntajib al-Din al-‘Ani—may God sanctify him—said in his poetry:

Ancient she was, and no "first" preceded her

Were it not for fear (Al-Tuqa), I would have said she is the Lord.

Dissimulation (Taqiya) is: concealment and veiling by openly performing the outward acts of worship among the denying Opposites (Al-Addad).

Similar to this is his saying in his poetry as well:

Were it not for dissimulation (Taqiya) in my school of thought

I would have rejected fear (Al-Tuqa) and lifted the veil.

Footnotes

1Note: A variant in the Diwan reads: "And its dominant [aspect]."
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