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1 Pre | does not know under what Sufi doctor Hafiz studied. As
2 Pre | religious teachers, whether Sufi or orthodox, and he was
3 Pre | score of others, he was a Sufi. The history of Sufiism
4 Pre | The drunkenness of the Sufi poets, say their interpreters,
5 Pre | recollection, so the soul of the Sufi longs to return to God,
6 Pre | opposition to the rest of Sufi teaching. There is neither
7 Pre | Tigris. It is said that a Sufi once asked God why he suffered
8 Pre | human is far older than Sufi thought. It goes back to
9 Pre | object, plays a large part in Sufi writings, a part which it
10 Pre | to the same conclusion: Sufi comes from an Arabic word
11 Pre | was undoubtedly an eminent Sufi, and that of Von Hammer,
12 Pre | standpoint. The asceticism of Sufi and orthodox he alike condemns: "
13 Pre | inextricably wine and love and Sufi teaching, and perhaps more
14 Pre | of the abstruser of the Sufi doctrines: "How shall I
15 Pre | should receive the full Sufi interpretation, as in the
16 Pre | did not forget that "the Sufi gold is not always without
17 Pre | Cantiques.]~is an accepted Sufi code with which the initiated
18 Pre | Many of the words in the Sufi dictionary have been expounded
19 I(*) | the spiritual draught of Sufi doctrine which refreshes
20 XVI(*)| the distinction between Sufi and orthodox is in fact
21 XIX(*)| him a safe refuge in the Sufi doctrines.~
22 XXI(*)| so much as one glass of Sufi wine. Nor was he worthy
23 XXI(*)| place of instruction in Sufi doctrine.~Stanza 3.--To
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