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2105-2114

  • He said, “This time, if I make a scandal, come on at once and dash knives into me. 2105
  • God transcends the body, and I am with the body: ye must kill me when I say a thing like this.”
  • When that (spiritual) freeman gave the injunction, each disciple made ready a knife.
  • Again he (Báyazíd) became intoxicated by that potent flagon: those injunctions vanished from his mind.
  • The Dessert came: his reason became distraught. The Dawn came: his candle became helpless.
  • Reason is like the prefect: when the sultan arrives, the helpless prefect creeps into a corner. 2110
  • Reason is the shadow of God: God is the sun: what power hath the shadow to resist His sun?
  • When a genie prevails over (gains possession of) a man, the attributes of humanity disappear from the man.
  • Whatsoever he says, that genie will (really) have said it: the one who belongs to this side will have spoken from (the control of) the one who belongs to yonder side.
  • Since a genie hath this influence and rule, how (much more powerful) indeed must be the Creator of that genie!