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In the entire vista of Malay literature—including even the Indonesian literatures—he was unique. None rivalled him in originality and poetic genius; in Malay Sufi literature none excelled the clarity and flowing simplicity of his prose which, nevertheless, reveals profound metaphysical insight in the Sufi doctrines; none exceeded him in poetry, whether it be in terms of literary output or in terms of intellectual content. He was, as I have earlier shown, the first man to set forth in systematic
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― The Origin of the Malay Sha'ir
― The Origin of the Malay Sha'ir
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Sufism is a personal experience of God within, a journey towards the throne of God through the faculty of sense. Witnessing god's splendour and beauty.
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