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Podcast: Poems of Annihilation
Episode: Forty Dawns for the Lord
Description: The Hundred Letters of Sharafuddin Maneri translated from Persian into English by Paul Jackson in the classics of western spirituality Paulist press letter 96: The Forty-Day Retreat “Springs of wisdom will appear on the tongue of anyone who sets aside forty dawns for the Lord” Q7:142 “keeping one’s stomach empty of food” “Awarif ul-Ma’arif forty veils Attar “you should if you can, stay in the humble service of a spiritual master as long as breath remains in you” astonishment