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588-597

  • Without thee, darkness is over heaven for us, (but) compared with thee, O Moon, who is this heaven at all?
  • The heavens have the form of sublimity, (but) the essence of sublimity belongs to the pure spirit.
  • The form of sublimity is for bodies; beside the essence (reality) bodies are (mere) names.” 590
  • The refusal of the vizier to interrupt his seclusion.
  • He said: “Cut short your arguments, let my advice make its way into your souls and hearts.
  • If I am trustworthy, the trustworthy is not doubted, even though I should call heaven earth.
  • If I am (endowed with) perfection, why (this) disbelief in my perfection? and if I am not (perfect), why this molestation and annoyance?
  • I will not go forth from this seclusion, because I am occupied with inward experiences.”
  • How the disciples raised objections against the vizier's secluding himself.
  • They all said: “O vizier, it is not disbelief: our words are not as the words of strangers. 595
  • The tears of our eyes are running because of our separation from thee; sigh after sigh is going (up) from the midst of our souls.
  • A babe does not contend with its nurse, but it weeps, although it knows neither evil nor good.