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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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Among what this ascetic Emir, nicknamed 'Ismat al-Dawla (Muhammad ibn al-Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla Ali ibn 'Isa Kuwaylakh), composed in description of his aforementioned epistle was his saying:

Accept this [epistle], the quintessence of Meanings,

Through the Method of Knowledge and Clarification.

A masterpiece of beauty, it shines radiantly;

May every Janbulani [follower of Al-Janbulani] find joy in it.

Attributes were negated therein from One who

Is clear, luminous, and pure.

After His manifest creation of existence,

He has no equal and no second.

Then I clarified what we have narrated

Regarding the rank of the Gate (Bab) and the Location (Makan).

Without bias and without falsehood

In soul, eye, and tongue.

Then I referred all matters collectively

Away from the whims of a sinful heart.

[Affirming] that nothing exists except

By Him, in the beginning and in true being.

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