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The Raddadiyah Epistle - Yusuf ibn al-Ajuz al-Raddad al-Ḥalabi

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And al-Baghdadi, may God sanctify his soul, said:

A Luminous Presence, too grand for circumscription, elevated

Likened to the radiance of the full moon, holy.

He settled within a white pearl, and thus blended A corporeal form that [illuminates natural beauty] 1

unto the completion of the verses. By the elevated, holy Luminous Presence that is too grand for circumscription, he intended the Greatest Name, which settled within a white pearl; thus, he is the radiance that is [from the Light] (1). And his statement:

The exterior of the essence is from the imprint of Divinity, While the corporeal form, to me, is a shimmering, radiant light.

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1In another manuscript: illuminates through it
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