Blessing is excess, so to speak, an excess of everything.Some excerpts from the Maqalat provide insight into the thoughts of Shams: Overall, it bears a mystical interpretation of Islam and contains spiritual advice. The Maqalat seems to have been written during the later years of Shams, as he speaks of himself as an old man. The Maqalat-e Shams-e Tabrizi ( Discourse of Shams-i Tabrīzī) is a Persian prose book written by Shams.
