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Podcast: Poems of Annihilation
Episode: Abstinence from what?
Description: Letter 82: Inordinate Desires a reading in The Hundred Letters of Sharafuddin Maneri Paul Jackson classics of western spirituality “surely you have no authority over My servants!” Q17:65 Khwaja Junaid: “what is union?” “The abandonment of following one’s own desires” “it is only when they have originated in confused desire and begun to appear that Satan pounces on them” Imam Shibli Sultan Mahmud Ghazni Ayaz Moses Adam Ibn Yahya Maneri 1263-1381 1980 Maktubat-i Sadi Persian sufi master Makhdum Sahib Bihar