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مَكْتَبَةُ كَتِيبَةِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ نُصَيْرٍ

Epistle of Nasih al-Dawlah - Jaysh bin Muhammad bin Mahraz

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Glory be to He who manifested His humanity

As a veil for the brilliance of His absent divinity

Then He appeared within His creation openly

In the form of the eater and the drinker

Until His creation indeed witnessed Him

By the arc of the eyebrow and the brow

And he also said what was recited by the righteous Sheikh Ibn 'Abd al-Quddus, the orphan of the religion of Allah, as poetic verses, which are these:

Whoever seeks Allah, the Dominant, as a pursuer

His private counsel is with the highest of the spirit throughout time

Upon Him is a garment, sunbulani, illuminated

In His face are traces of the highest status

He discourses with them from a human form

That is completely transcendent above accidental traits and forgetfulness

And it was narrated from our master al-Sadiq, majestic is His mention, that he said concerning some of the Shia: "There is no verse except that Ali has a mention within it." So a man said: "My master,

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