Poetry and Beliefs
Shah Abdul Latif gave a pantheistic meaning to many Quranic expressions such as,
- He is the first, He is the last, The Apparent and the Hidden (57:3)
- Wheresoever you may turn there is the face of God (2:115)
- He is nearer to you then your jugular vein (50:16)
- Every moment he discloses himself in fresh glory (55:29)
Shah sang,Separation and union are one and the same, God, the best of proposers, will unite the lover and the loved one. Shah Abdul Latif knew of the works of Ibn Arabi and his doctrine of Wahdat-ul-Wujood and based his life on those principles. He wrote 93 books.
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“I cannot say what poetry is; I know that our sufferings and our concentrated joy, our states of plunging far and dark and turning to come back to the world—so that the moment of intense turning seems still and universal—all are here, in a music like the music of our time, like the hero and like the anonymous forgotten; and there is an exchange here in which our lives are met, and created.”
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