Le Marabout Errant: Dervish Baba, can you tell us about your Shaykh?
Dervish Baba: I suppose so...What would you like to know?
LME: Well, to begin with, who was he?
DB: My Shaykh was not a "he."
LME: Oh, you had a Shaykhah?
DB: Yes, Shaykhs and Shaykhahs...
LME: So there have been many?
DB: Many...But, in a sense, all one.
LME: Would you care to elaborate?
DB: My "Shaykh", if you will, is
al-Hayat al-Dunya. And if you listen to that Shaykh with intelligence, with discrimination, you will never need another.
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