“O people! We have been taught the language of birds, and been given everything ˹we need. This is indeed a great privilege.”

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https://quran.com/27/16

Valley of the Quest, where the Wayfarer begins by casting aside all dogma, belief, and unbelief.2. Valley of Love, where reason is abandoned for the sake of love.3. Valley of Knowledge, where worldly knowledge becomes utterly useless.4. Valley of Detachment, where all desires and attachments to the world are given up. Here, what is assumed to be “reality” vanishes.5. Valley of Unity, where the Wayfarer realizes that everything is connected and that the Beloved is beyond everything, including harmony, multiplicity, and eternity.6. Valley of Wonderment, where, entranced by the beauty of the Beloved, the Wayfarer becomes perplexed and, steeped in awe, finds that he has never known or understood anything.7. Valley of Poverty and Annihilation, where the self disappears into the universe and the Wayfarer becomes timeless, existing in both the past and the future.

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They eventually come to understand that the majesty of that Beloved is like the sun that can be seen reflected in a mirror. Yet, whoever looks into that mirror will also behold his or her own image.

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The shadow and its maker are one and the same, so get over surfaces and delve into mysteries