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world than him who lives in thoughtless awareness". "Piety and sin are two sides of the material world. A true mystic is above both of them, he has preference for none".
If one does not know that these are the utterances of saint Bayzid one would think that they are spoken by a Jain philosopher who believes that piety and sin are both the elements which bind the soul to the Karmic bondage.
Suhravardi Maktul
He was born in the 12th Cent. A.D. in the year 1153 at the village called Suhravard in North Iran. He came in contact with Sufi saints and scholars and moved much in Turkastan and Syria and finally settled in Damascuss.
The murderers of Mansur, who declared "Anal Hakk", must have thought in their ignorance that by killing the martyr they would be killing his ideas also. They were sadly mistaken. Saint Suhravardi was spreading the ideas of Mansur and so the traditionalists thought that he was a danger to Islam.
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