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Author of two books of mystical poetry and a single theosophical treatise, Shabistari is famed mainly for this book, which he composed in 1317 in rhyming couplets amounting to about one thousand lines. This poem was written in response to seventeen queries concerning various intricacies of Sufi metaphysics posed to the Sufi masters of Adharbayjan by another great Sufi of his day, Rukn al-Din Husayni Harawi. Composed in a highly symbolic language, the poem covers a variety of themes on the Sufi path and the evolution of the soul. The poem was first brought to Western attention by French travellers and later translated into German and English entering itself into the lexicon of Sufi literature.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHaeri, Shaykh Fadhlalla:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri is a spiritual philosopher and writer whose role as a teacher grew naturally out of his own quest for self-fulfilment. 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