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Three Treatises on Mysticism. By Shihābuddīn Suhrawerdī Maqtūl. Edited and translated by Otto Spies and S. K. Khatak. Bonner Orientalistische Studien. Stuttgart, 1935.
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , February 1937 , pp. 1170 - 1172
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- Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1937
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1 Cf. Qushayrī, “It begins with flashes of light, then rays, then the light shining forth in its full splendour.” Risāla, p. 53 (ed. Cairo, 1867) and Ghazālī, “If the mysticis free from all distraction, the Light of God will shine upon his heart and it will be at the first like a blinding flash of lightning. Its sojourn is but brief, but it will return, for it is the prelude to a constant communion with God.” Ihyā', iii, 167, 17 (ed. Cairo, A.H. 1272).