Bereft of life, bereft of knowledge,
bereft of power and will,
how shall I describe my state?
For I do not exist; only He exists.
I am deaf; the hearer is He.
I am blind; the seer is He.
I am mute; the orator is He.
I do not exist; only He exists.
- Shah Kamal, Islamic Sufism, p. 101
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