“Accursed be prayers, to hell with fasts,
and let confession of faith be damned.
O Bullah, I have found the Lord within,
and the world wanders in delusion!”

—  Bulleh Shah

Bulleh Shah, The Love-Intoxicated Iconoclast, p. 130
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