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Passages similar to: The Masnavi — 'Ali's Forbearance
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The Masnavi
'Ali's Forbearance (21-30)
From His displeasure He evolves a Paradise; He feels displeasure at His own acts, In this city of events He is the Lord, If He crushes His own instruments, Know the great mystery of 'whatever verses we cancel, Or cause you to forget, we substitute better for them.' Whatever law God cancels, He makes as a weed, So night cancels the business of the daytime, Again, night is cancelled by the light of day, Though darkness produces this sleep and quiet,
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (33)
For he has made the house of light to be a house of darkness, and the house of joy to be a house of mourning, lamentation and sadness; that which was ...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter XIV (2)
Here is a god displeased against me; let wrong be overwhelmed and let it fall upon the hands of the Lord of Law. Remove the impediments which are in...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XII (18)
If He desireth, He causeth it to rain, morning and evening ; And if He desireth, He withholdeth it, And all things are. in His hand.'"'
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XIV: Greek Plagiarism From the Hebrews. (50)
What follows applies to the universe, in which are the opposites of light and darkness.