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2040-2049

  • The path is there, but it is hidden in a secret place: its discovery is in pawn to (involves) seeking in vain (before it can be found). 2040
  • Separation is secretly in quest of union: in this seeker do thou discern the face of the sought.
  • The dead (trees and plants) of the orchard spring up from the root, saying, “Perceive the Giver of life!”
  • How should the eyes of these prisoners (of the world) be always (fixed) on (what lies) beyond, if there were no bringer of the good news (of deliverance)?
  • How should there be a hundred thousand befouled ones seeking water, if there were no water in the river?
  • (If) there is no rest for thy side upon the earth, (yet) know that there is a coverlet and mattress at home. 2045
  • Without (there being) a resting-place there would not be the restless (seeker); without (there being) that which takes away the headache of intoxication, there would not be this headache.
  • He (the objector) said, “Nay, nay, O Messenger of God, do not appoint any but an old Shaykh to be chief of the army.
  • O Messenger of God, (even) if the youth is lion-born (heroic), may none but an old man be head of the army!
  • Thou too hast said, and thy word is (a true) witness, ‘The leader must be old, must be old.’