“All things are but masks at God's beck and call,
They are symbols that instruct us that God is all.”

—  Attar of Nishapur, book The Conference of the Birds

As translated by Raficq Abdulla
The Conference of the Birds (1177)

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Persian Sufi poet 1145–1230

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