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Ibn El-Arabi - The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq - She said, 'I wonder at a lover'
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013410
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Ibn El-Arabi - The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq, tr. Reynold A. Nicholson, [1911]
She said, 'I wonder at a lover who in conceit of his merits walks proudly among flowers in a garden.'
I replied, 'Do not wonder at what thou seest, for thou hast beheld thyself in the mirror of a man'