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The ultimate goal of the Sufi is to become one with the invisible, that is, the absolute

would have been easier than for them to come to an agreement to bring

influence of immigrants who had come in large numbers from the Muslim areas of the empire. The second half of the 16th century was a period of rapid expansion

Then he says – and he writes prose poetry: ‘The rhythm, the rhythm. Poetry is defined by its rhythm.’

Nothing reminds him

of nowhere, so he walks with his misgivings

Walks, and does not arrive

as if he is he, or one of the attributes of ‘I’

that the two opposites, hope and despair

have divided between themselves

In the echois a well

In the wellis an echo

and I search the space between them

for the source of the sound

in vain.

And he says to me: ‘I am present in all things

absent from all things, between yesterday

and my present is a willow tree

a willow tree where two times intersect’

I say: ‘So who are you?’

He says to me, tucking his notebook under his arm

entangled in his poetic way of talking:

‘This is all that’s left of the wreckage of my identity.’

If God has punished Adam by driving him out of eternal life into time, then the earth is exile and history a tragedy.

The only smooth road is the road to the abyss, until further notice . . . until the issuing of a divine pardon.