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conforts and luxuries of Heaven, or from the fear of pains and perils of Hell. It springa from the total and perennial surrender to the Divine will. In the words of saint Rabia, "My Lord, if I love you for the fear of Hell, please see that I do go to Hell, and if I love you being lured by the, pleasures of Heaven, please close its doors for me." Rabia's love for God can be compared only with Mira's love for Shri Krishna. Sufis so actuely realized the oneness of Hakk (the Divine) and the Khalk (the mundane) that they took Ishq Majaji (earthly love) as a step towards Ishq Hakiki (Divine love). According to the Sufis all these multifarious varieties found in the universe are the creations of God and hence, they belong to Him. They being inseperable from Him, He is omnipresent and hence, He only exists. Thus the Sufis are one with great SHANKAR who declared "Brahma Satya, Jagat Mithya" i.e. only Brahma (God) is real and all that is material is unreal. This pantheistic approach of the Sufis was novel to the traditionalists because Islamic philosophy is based, like Jainism, on the doctrine
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