The third part is the development of teaching skills, and the fourth and final part is the attainment of the highest level of God-knowledge, in which the seeker-now a master-can actually aid others in making the transition from this life to the next at the time of death.
While Hafiz spoke little about the fourth part, he spoke in great detail about the first three parts. In regards to annihilation, he wrote:
Love is
The funeral pyre
Where I have laid my living body.
All the false notions of myself
That once caused fear, pain
Have turned to ash
As I neared God.
What has risen
From the tangled web of thought and sinew
Now shines with jubilation
Through the eyes of angels
And screams from the gust of Infinite existence
Itself.
Love is the funeral pyre
Where the heart must lay
It's body. (Ladinsky, 69)
Therefore by relinquishing one's...
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