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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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Find Him [therein], and you shall be saved from Metempsychosis (al-Maskhiyya).

[The Essence is] a Word without gathering or enumeration,

Rather, she is He (hiya huwa)—as a confirmation with affirmation.

By no means can the Fates encompass Him.

Blessed be Allah, the Most High, the All-Compelling,

Above all that the anthropomorphists (al-Shabhiyya) say.

She is He, yet He is not she (hiya huwa wa lā huwa hiya), O antagonist!

Listen to my words; you shall be guided and directed,

Toward the Straight Path and the Guidance.

You shall be among those who unify the Deity, [Exalting Him] above [having] a son or a father.

He appeared in a form of familiarization (ansan) for the People of Gnosis,

And distinguished them therein with a Name and an Attribute.

He settled them in the highest of noble palaces;

They are established within the described Gardens,

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