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Al-Qabid
The
Constrictor
Art
thou not aware of thy Sustainer through His works? --how He
causes the shadow to lengthen towards the night when, had He so
willed, He could indeed have made it stand still: but then, We
have made the sun its guide; and then, after having caused it to
lengthen, We draw it in towards Ourselves with a gradual
drawing-in.
Al-Furqan
25:45, tr. Asad
This
discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the
silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling
the scum away.
Rumi, Mathnawi I:232-233, tr. Helminski |
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