Note 338
Tale of the Portress.
A parody on the testification of Allah's Unity.
Blest be his beauty; blest the Lord's decree * Who cast and shaped a thing so bright of blee: All gifts of beauty he conjoins in one; * Lost in his love is all humanity; For Beauty's self inscribed on his brow * "I testify there be no Good but he!"[FN#338]
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