Attar's "Conference of the Birds" - The Greatest Sufi Masterpiece?
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You Come as 30 Birds You See These 30 Bird's
The story then goes on for a little while more to some degree emphasizing that after fana or annihilation comes what is known as bakkha or subsistence in god where one returns to oneself but with a kind of newfound perspective. As they listened to the Simurk's words a trembling dissolution filled the birds the substance of their being was undone and they were lost like shade before the sun neither the pilgrim nor their guide remained, silence reigned it's absolutely breathtaking even in translation.
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