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مَكْتَبَةُ كَتِيبَةِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ نُصَيْرٍ

Guidance for the Seeker and the Lamp for the Monotheist - Abu Salih al-Daylami

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They are—by my life—one and the same for the one who recites.

The 'Mim' created, by the permission of his Lord,

A Gate (Bab) that guides to the knowledge of the Name.

Then the Gate created his Orphans (Aytam):

Five noble Orphans, who were granted excellence.

And He [the Meaning] is Exalted and High, transcendent."

"May Allah forgive its composer (Ibn al-Hajjaj), its scribe, its comprehender, and all the believers.

Contemplate this poetry and the Monotheism (Tawhid) and virtue it contains with the eye of insight and fairness. Delve deep, recognize, reflect, and consider its meanings and the various arts of Monotheism it has gathered. If you do so, you will find that this virtuous man has encompassed Monotheism in its entirety and gifted it to you so that you may be guided by it. All of this was done in his hope for the prayers of the believers and a mercy he might attain from the Lord of the Worlds and the Imam of the Two Heavies (Jinn and Mankind).

Were it not for the fear of being too lengthy—and that the reader or listener might grow weary of what we provide—I would have presented this Maqsura poem in its complete and perfect form.

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