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The sunrise and the sunset seemed conscious of Winnie, and the very birds seemed to be warbling at times 'She's alive. I think, indeed, that I had passed into that sufistic ecstasy expressed by a writer often quoted by my father, an Oriental writer, Ferridoddin With love I burn: the centre is within me; While in a circle everywhere around me Its Wonder lies
This is the title of the wellknown book of Nasir-i-Khusrao, namely, Rushnai Nameh, a considerable portion of which manifests Shia and Sufistic influences and which by its nature must have been connected with ethico-didactic literature. This book formed, as no doubt its author did, the uniting link between the didactic Parsi clerical writings and the ethical literature of Islam.
He professed the Brahman and Sûfistic doctrine that the soul migrates through countless existences and finally attains divinity after complete purification. In this case a convincing demonstration appeared to him so necessary that some individuals would have to suffer for it.
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