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Al-Mumit
The Taker of Life
[FONT=book antiqua, goudy old style, bell mt][FONT=book antiqua, goudy old style, bell mt]A[/FONT]nd He it is who grants life and deals death; and to Him is due the alternation of night and day.
[FONT=book antiqua, goudy old style, bell mt]Al-Mu'minun 23:80, tr. Asad[/FONT] [FONT=book antiqua, goudy old style, bell mt]E[/FONT]veryone is so afraid of death,
but the real sufis just laugh:
nothing tyrannizes their hearts.
What strikes the oyster shell doesn't damage the pearl.
[FONT=book antiqua, goudy old style, bell mt]Mathnawi I:3495-3496, tr. Helminski[/FONT]
[FONT=book antiqua, goudy old style, bell mt][FONT=book antiqua, goudy old style, bell mt]62.
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[FONT=book antiqua, goudy old style, bell mt][FONT=book antiqua, goudy old style, bell mt]Al-Hayy[/FONT]
[FONT=book antiqua, goudy old style, bell mt]The Ever Living One[/FONT]
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[FONT=book antiqua, goudy old style, bell mt][FONT=book antiqua, goudy old style, bell mt]G[/FONT]od -- there is no deity save Him, the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsistent Fount of All Being!
[FONT=book antiqua, goudy old style, bell mt]Al-Imran 3:1, tr. Asad[/FONT] [/FONT]
[FONT=book antiqua, goudy old style, bell mt][FONT=book antiqua, goudy old style, bell mt]63.
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[FONT=book antiqua, goudy old style, bell mt][FONT=book antiqua, goudy old style, bell mt]Al-Qayyum[/FONT]
[FONT=book antiqua, goudy old style, bell mt]The Self-Existing One[/FONT]
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[FONT=book antiqua, goudy old style, bell mt][FONT=book antiqua, goudy old style, bell mt]G[/FONT]od -- there is no deity save Him, the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsistent Fount of all Being!
[FONT=book antiqua, goudy old style, bell mt]Al 'Imran 3:2, tr. Asad[/FONT] [/FONT]
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