“When people seek the Lord with earnestness and are lost to themselves, God is met.”

— Abu al-Hassan al-Kharaqani

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2002), p. 93

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Iranian Sufi (963–1033) 963–1033

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