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  • When the darkness of pain is gone and he (the fool) has be come happy, its result and product also goes from his heart.
  • He is making vow’s of repentance, whilst the Pír, Reason, is crying, “Though they should be sent back, they would surely return.” 2300
  • Explaining that imagination (wahm) is the counterfeit of Reason and in opposition to it, and that though it resembles Reason it is not Reason; and the story of the replies given to each other by Moses, on whom be peace, who was the possessor of Reason, and Pharaoh, who was the possessor of imagination.
  • Reason is the contrary of sensuality: O brave man, do not call (by the name of) Reason that which is attached to sensuality.
  • That which is a beggar of sensuality—call it imagination: imagination is the counterfeit of the sterling gold of the rational faculties.
  • Without a touchstone, imagination and reason are not clearly distinguished: quickly bring both to the touchstone.
  • The Qur’án and the (spiritual) state of the Prophets are this touchstone: they, like a touchstone, say to the counterfeit coin, “Come,
  • That by contact with me thou mayst see thyself (and know) that thou art not worthy of my higher and lower (degrees of spirituality).” 2305
  • If a saw make Reason (to be severed into) two halves, it (Reason) will be smiling like gold in the fire.
  • Imagination belongs to Pharaoh, the world-incendiary; Reason to Moses, the spirit-enkindler.
  • Moses went on the way of non-existence (self-negation): Pharaoh said to him, “Tell (me), who art thou?”