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90The Ultimate Reality or Eternal Beauty, according to the Sufis of this school, is infinite in the sense that "it is absolutely free from the limitations of beginning, end, right, left, above, and below(1)." Theof essence and attribute does not exist in the Infinite-" Substance and quality are really identical(2)." We have indicated above that nature is the mirror of the Absolute Existence. But according to Nasafi, there are two kinds of mirrors(3) (a) That which shows merely a reflected image - is external nature. (b) That which shows the real essence - this is man who is a limitation of the Absolute, and erroneously thinks himself to be an independent entity. "0 Derwish !" says Nasafi, " dost thou think that thy existence is independent of God? This is a great error(4)." Nasafi explains his meaning by a beautiful parable(5). The fishes in a certain tank realised that - they lived, moved, and had their being in water, but felt that they were quite ignorant of the real nature of what constituted the very source of their life. They resorted to a wiser fish in a great river, and the philosopher-fish addressed them thus: "O you who endeavour to unite the knot (of being)! You are born in union, yet die in the thought of an unreal separation. Thirsty on the 1.Nasafi's Maqsadi Aqsa: fol. 8b. 2.lbid fol. 10b. 3.Ibid. fol. 23b. 4.Ibid. fol. 3b. 5.Ibid.fol.15b
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