Sunday, May 18, 2008

Rabi'a the Mystic

an excerpt from the main book i'm using to write my paper:

Abu Talib states that there are indeed myriad ways to God and quotes a gnostic who said, "The ways to God are as many as the believers," and another who held that "the ways to God are as many as created things, that is that to the contemplative there is a way to be found through every creature," and this is in accordance with the later Sufi view that the whole world is the book of God Most High and that beneath the veil of each atom is hidden the soul-ravishing beauty of the Face of the Beloved.
-Margaret Smith

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