“The beloved does not drink a single drop of water without seeing His Face in the cup.”

— Mansur Al-Hallaj

As quoted in Mystical Dimensions of Islam http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=583 (1978) by Annemarie Schimmel <br class="br">Context: The beloved does not drink a single drop of water without seeing His Face in the cup. Allah is He Who flows between the pericardium and the heart, just as the tears flow from the eyelids.

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Persian mystic, revolutionary writer and teacher of Sufism 858–922

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