* * * * * “He saw the lightning in the east and longed for the east, but if it had flashed in the west he would have longed for the west. My desire is for the lightning and its gleam, not for the places and the earth.”
— Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi from Poem 14 of the Tarjuman al-Ashwaq (“The Interpreter of Yearnings”), translated by R.A. Nicholson
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