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Original language or English translation acceptable. One reading of ayah 54 of Surah al al-Māʾidah holds that the dot in the letter ba in one name of this concept is planted like a seed in the following word that refers to humanity’s version of it. Allah lifts the veil hiding him for a kind of this concept “worthy of Him” in a poem by a woman who claimed she would put out the fires of hell. A treatise on this concept quotes the Hidden Treasure hadīth to argue that it is the essence of Allah. The Sawānih rejects a distinction between (*) “real” and “metaphorical” varieties of this concept. Attar describes this concept that names the second valley of The Conference of the Birds as plunging pilgrims into “seas of fire.” Ayn-al-Quzāt Hamadānī and Ahmad Ghazali’s writings influenced Rumi’s formulation of Sufism as the madhab of not asceticism, but this concept. For 10 points, Sufis use the story of Layli and Majnun (10[1])to allegorize what (10[1])concept (10[1])between man and god? ■END■

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