... knowledge but also there may be an underling meaning as to why he wants to go on this journey. What is known is that it is the ever-elusive Paradise or Nirvana or Shangri-La that everyone, especially Ibn Fattouma, is searching for. Gebel is a symbol or what man wants to be and that is God like ... his faith he tries really hard but fails. It seems that the temptations in Mashriq is to great for a young man of his statute and also his lost love had reappeared in some form in the land of Mashriq which he quickly gave in to. Mashriq, is the land of temptation and lust. This land ... his s...

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... of him/herself in the process. Sufi's believe that through understanding God's perspective, one loses a part of themself, God becoming a part of that person in the place of what was lost. Expanding upon the movement of Sufi philosophy is best described through the spiritual passage that its followers are motivated to undertake. The path taken begins with begins with one accepting ... allowed in heaven. The first person believing in both a non-biased divinity and that his actions reflected his good heart stated "Only If I can go, anyone else can go inside Paradise." The second man, angry...

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