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Passages similar to: The Masnavi — 'Ali's Forbearance
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The Masnavi
'Ali's Forbearance (71-80)
If Thou findest fault with Thy slaves, Verily it is right in Thee, O Blessed One! If Thou shouldst call sun and moon obscure, If Thou shouldst call the straight cypress crooked, If Thou shouldst declare the highest heaven base, Or rich mines and oceans paupers, All this is the truth in relation to Thy perfection! Thine is the dominion and the glory and the wealth! For Thou art exempt from defect and not-being, Thou givest existence to things non-existent, and again
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXIV (3)
And Thou knowest and seest and hearest everything, And there is nothing hidden from Thee [for Thou seest everything].
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXIII (3)
And splendid in every secret thing is Thy power from generation to generation, And Thy glory for ever and ever: Deep are all Thy secrets and innumerab...
Allogenes the Stranger
Praises of Barbelo according to [Existence?], Vitality, and Mentality (1)
Thou art [great, Deiphan]eus! Solmis, [thou art great!] In accord with the Vitality [that is thine, even] the primary activity from which derives Divi...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter XV (38)
Thou sailest over the Heaven, thou travellest over earth and in splendour thou reachest the zenith; the two divisions of Heaven are in obeisance to...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter XV (25)
Most Mighty one, master of masters, who defendest every abode of thine against wrong, Most Glorious one in thine Evening Bark, Most Illustrious in...
Book of Enoch
Chapter IX (5)
Thou hast made all things, and power over all things hast Thou: and all things are naked and open in Thy sight, and Thou seest all things, and...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 50 — Spenta Mainyu Gatha (10)
(Mine every wish and prayer is this), then therefore whatsoever I shall do, and whatsoever deeds (of ritual and truth I shall yet further do) on...
Corpus Hermeticum
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (31)
Holy art Thou, O God, the universals' Father. Holy art Thou, O God, whose Will perfects itself by means of its own Powers. Holy art Thou, O God, who...
Bhagavad Gita
Viśhwarūpa Sandarśhana Yoga (11.43)
Thou art the Father of the world— of all that move and all that do not move. Thou art the object of its worship, its most venerable Teacher. There is...
Bhagavad Gita
Viśhwarūpa Sandarśhana Yoga (11.37)
O Infinite One, Lord of gods, Abode of the universe, Thou art the Imperishable, Being and non-being, and that which is the Supreme.
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (118)
If thou sayest any other thing than this, which heaven and earth and all the creatures testify, then thou liest; nay, the whole Deity testifieth...
Corpus Hermeticum
4. The Cup or Monad (11)
Now all that is engendered is imperfect, it is divisible, to increase subject and to decrease; but with the Perfect [One] none of these things doth...
Bhagavad Gita
Vibhūti Yoga (10.41)
Whatever glorious or beautiful or mighty being exists anywhere, know that it has sprung from but a spark of My splendour.
The Conference of the Birds
Invocation (42)
All men who are aware of their ignorance tuck up the flap of their garment and say earnestly: 'O thou who art not seen although thou makest us to...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 48 — Spenta Mainyu Gatha (9)
(Aye, when shall faith be changed to sight ); and when shall I in verity discern if Ye indeed have power over aught, O Lord! and through Thy...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter LXXII (1)
Hail to you, ye Lords of Rule, devoid of Wrong, who are living for ever, and whose secular period is Eternity. I make my way towards you. Let me be...
The Conference of the Birds
Question of the Twentieth Bird (3)
God from on High said to David: 'Say to my servants: "O handful of earth! If I had not heaven for recompense and hell for punishment, would you ever...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter LXXIX (2)
Hail to you, ye Lords of pure things, ye whose abodes are hidden