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425-434

  • (The shadow mentioned in the words) How He (God) extended the shadow is the form of the saints, which guides to the light of the Divine Sun. 425
  • Do not go in this valley without this guide; say, like Khalíl (Abraham), “I love not them that set.”
  • Go, from the shadow gain a sun: pluck the skirt of the (spiritual) king, Shams-i Tabrízí (the Sun of Tabríz)!
  • If you do not know the way to this feast and bridal, ask of Ziyá’u ’l-Haqq (the Radiance of God) Husámu’ddín.
  • And if on the way envy seize you by the throat, it belongs to (is characteristic of) Iblís to go beyond bounds in envy;
  • For he because of envy hath disdain for Adam, and because of envy is at war with felicity. 430
  • In the Way there is no harder pass than this. Oh, fortunate he who is not companioned by envy!
  • This body, you must know, is the house of envy, for the household are tainted with envy.
  • If the body is the house of envy, yet God made that body very pure.
  • (The text) Cleanse My house, ye twain, is the explanation of (such) purity: it (the purified heart) is a treasure of (Divine) light, though its talisman is of earth.