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« and breadth of their speech, an analogous metaphor to that of the sun and moon hiding their faces before the luminous beauty of the beloved, which one finds in Persian poetry. There may also be an allusion here to Sūra 18 (al-Kahf) verse 109: Say: ‘If the ocean were ink for the words of my Lord, the ocean would be dried up before the words of my Lord were exhausted.’ »