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 1    1|                 INTRODUCTION~LIFE OF SHABISTARĪ~"It is inward
 2    1| known of Mahmūd Shabistarī's life. He wrote beside the Gulshan
 3    1|    until he has purified his life, cast aside everything that
 4    1|      he will spend his whole life in communion with God, at
 5    1|     is known of Shabistarī's life, but of his learning and
 6    1|      acquired by man in this life will in the next world be
 7    1|      appropriate to its past life. The material idea of Paradise
 8    I|      is His smile that gives life to man's water and clay;~
 9    I|    to the mansion of Eternal Life.~The blackness of His curl
10    I|    cheek holds the secret of life.~If only you can glimpse
11    V|                 THE DREAM OF LIFE~You have heard much of this
12   VI| insect's wing is an ocean of life,~ ./. A heaven is concealed
13  XII|    you will enter the Divine Life.~And he who is pure as the
14  XIV|     me, saying,~ ./. All thy life thou has sought~Name and
15  XIV|    shame~To remember my lost life,~My wasted days.~