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Shams takes the usual meaning of caprice for granted, but 370 INDEX AND GLOSSARY OF INAMES AND IERMS he also speaks of another sort of caprice that can be a dangerous obstruction to those already well advanced on the path to God cat ( gurba), 1.6, 22, 2.155, 3.26, 129, 188 catamite (amrad), 2.214; (mukhannath), 3.223 causes, secondary (asbdb), 2.74, 3.77, 213.
— Shams-e-Tabrizi
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Maqalat-e-Shams (Discourses of Shams-e-Tabrizi) 216

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Maqalat-e-Shams (Discourses of Shams-e-Tabrizi)
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