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God’s everlasting beauty

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O God, if I worship you in fear of hell, burn me in hell. If I worship you in hope of paradise, shut me out from paradise. But if I worship you for your own sake, do not withhold from me your everlasting beauty. 

Rábi‘a (717–801, Islamic mystic and poet?

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