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686-695

  • Come, O you that seek the remedy, set your eye on non-spatiality, as the eye of one (about to be) killed (turns) towards the spirit.
  • This (spatial) world has been produced from that which is without spatial relations, for the world has received (the relation of) place from placelessness.
  • Turn back from existence towards non-existence, (if) you seek the Lord and belong to the Lord.
  • This non-existence is the place of income: do not flee from it; this existence of more and less is the place of expenditure.
  • Since God's workshop is non-existence, in the world of (phenomenal) existence who is (to be found) except the idle? 690
  • Put into our heart subtle words which may move Thee to mercy, O Gracious One!
  • From Thee (come) both the prayer and the answer; from Thee safety, from Thee also dread.
  • If we have spoken faultily, do Thou correct it: Thou art the Corrector, O Thou (who art the) Sultan of speech.
  • Thou hast the alchemy whereby Thou mayst transmute it, and though it be a river of blood, mayst make it a Nile.
  • Such alchemical operations are Thy work, such elixirs are Thy secrets. 695