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مَكْتَبَةُ كَتِيبَةِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ نُصَيْرٍ

The Epistle of Admonition in the Gnosis of Transcendence - Ahmad al-Istibari

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And it is the Abode of Peace [Dār al-Salām] upon which al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥamdān al-Khaṣībī sent greetings, and mentioned it in his Dīwān—may Allah illuminate his face—within his poem, saying:

Peace be upon the land of al-Ḥusayn and his presence, Peace be upon the radiant light in Karbalā.

Peace be upon the spirits of the lights of his original nature, In the Abode of Peace of Allah, by the side of His neighborhood.

And it is that which he mentioned in his Levant Poem [al-Qaṣīdah al-Shāmiyyah], saying:

So ask Allah, your Lord, He will grant you

What you hope for of abundant completeness,

Toward Kūfah of goodness, the abode of the Legatee [al-Waṣī]

And his migration, for it is the Abode of Peace.

And regarding it, the Imam—majestic is his mention—said:

And He makes it his abode for the noble ones.

And he said in another poem:

Domes have risen for you, O my guides,

In the land of Kūfān and the Euphrates,

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