"From the hand of the cup-bearer I drank the goblet of love. Oneness became overpowering, forget infidelity and Islam."

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“O Farid ! Friend is not hidden; everywhere He is openly manifest. Darkness is all pervaise Light. Only it has been named differently.”

“Whoever found the beloved in the temple of the heart, got purged of all affliction and sin, by meditation attained permanence. Farid subsists without individuality.”

“Beauty and ugliness are manifestations of the self-The lovely colorless is in each color.”

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