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known as Mansur, whom we have already referred to. There is Shamsh of Tabrez also who says:
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CONFLUENCE OF OPPOSITES
عجب من شمش تبریزم که گشتم شینکه بر خرد چون خودرا خود نظر کردم ندیدم جز خدا در خود
[How wonderful I am Shamsh of Tabrez; when I came to look into myself, I found none but God in the self !]
Maulana Rum writes:
"Oh my soul, I searched from end to end, I saw in thee nought save the Beloved. Call me not infidel, O my
soul, if I say that thou thyself art He.
Ye who in search of God, of God, pursue,
Ye need not search for God is you, ig you !"
The Sufi thought approached perfection with Faridul-din Attar who said :
تا تو هستی خداے در خواب است تو نماني چو اوشود بیدار
Rendered into Urdu it would read:
باعث ایک خدا کے خواب غفلت کی تيري هستي هے تو ته عالم میں تو وہ بیدار ہو جاوے
[Tr. So long as thou art in evidence, a God is asleep; when thou shalt cease to be, He shall wake up.]
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Is this any thing other than a repetition of the old Indian principle that the soul is its own God, or different from the Messiah's word:
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