Figures
who it looks to — gods, spirits, ancestors; some rooms are empty on principle Part of Belief →
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Rumi — drunk on the Beloved.
A sober jurist until a wandering dervish overturned him: the rest is 25,000 verses trying to say what happened.
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Al-Ghazali — the scholar who crossed over.
The greatest mind of his age abandoned his post, tried the mystics' path, and returned to report it was the real thing.
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