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"Wisdom is the understanding of celestial things to which the Spirit is brought by Love."
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"'On the 24th of the same month I went to see the fort of Kangra, and gave an order that the Qazi, the Chief Justice , and other learned men of Islam should accompany me and carry out in the fort whate…"
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