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بخش ۸ / Section 8

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ذوالنون - قدس سره - پیش یکی از مشایخ مغرب رفت به جهت مسئله ای؟ گفت: بهر چه آمدی؟ اگر آمده ای که علم اولین و آخرین بیاموزی آن را روی نیست این همه خالق داند، و اگر آمده ای که او را جویی آنجا که اول گام برگرفتی او خود آنجا بود.
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Dhul-Nun - may his secret be sanctified - went to one of the sheikhs of the Maghrib concerning a certain question. The sheikh said: 'For what have you come? If you have come to learn the knowledge of the first and the last, there is no way to that - the Creator knows all of it. And if you have come to seek Him, then there, where you took your very first step, He Himself was already present.'

Before this, I imagined You to be outside myself; At the farthest reach of my journey, I supposed You to be. Now that I have found You, I know that You are the very One Whom I had left behind at the very first step.

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