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A garden amidst the flames.
My heart embraces every form.
It is a pasture for gazelles
and a convent for Christian monks,
and a temple for idols,
and the pilgrim’s Kaaba,
and the tables of the Torah,
and the book of the Quran.

I follow Love.
Whatever way Love’s camels take—
that is my religion
and my faith.

by Ibn al-Arabi, Sufi Muslim poet, mystic and philosopher, 1165-1240