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Spiritual and Devotional Poets » Sufi Poets » Lalla » Lalla Poetry » How shall the nameless be defined

How shall the nameless be defined

A thousand times my Guru I asked:
How shall the Nameless be defined?
I asked and asked but all in vain.
The Nameless Unknown, it seems to me,
Is the source of the something that we see.

By: Lalla

From: Lalla vakhs No. 26

Web source: Kashmiri Saints

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