All others who are full of themselves and their scholarship fail to fulfill this basic prerequisite for seeing God as possibly more than merely our image of Him. The poet in this act of utter simplicity and conceptual poverty ( faqir) before the overflowing abundance of the Infinite comes closest to offering a container for the Divine. The poet welcomes mystery, welcomes perplexity, welcomes God, and welcomes the Unknown ( ghayb). Where others are threatened by the exposure of the limits of their systems, and zealously seek to guard their boundaries – even seeking to confine God within their boundaries, the poet makes no such transgression. Where philosophy flounders, where logic is dumbstruck, and theology is at pains to explain, comes the poet who has the sense to offer silent surrender to the mystery before him.
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