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Al-Mumit
The
Taker of Life
And
He it is who grants life and deals death; and to Him is due the
alternation of night and day.
Al-Mu'minun
23:80, tr. Asad
Everyone
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.
Mathnawi
I:3495-3496, tr. Helminski |