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  • Wash thy senses for a while with the water of clairvoyance: know that the garment-washing of the Súfís is like this. 2385
  • When thou hast become purified, the spirit of the pure ones will tear off the veil and attach itself to thee.
  • If the whole world be (filled with) light and (radiant) forms, (only) the eye would be aware of that loveliness.
  • (Suppose) thou hast shut the eye and art bringing forward the ear that thou mayst show unto it the locks and face of an adorable beauty,
  • The ear will say, “I do not attend to the (visible) form: if the form utter a cry, I will hearken.
  • I am skilled, but (only) in my own art: my art is (the perception of) a (spoken) word or sound, no more.” 2390
  • (And if thou say), “Hey, nose, come and see this beauteous one,” the nose is not fit for this purpose.
  • “If there be any musk or rose-water, I will smell it: this is my art and science and knowledge.
  • How should I see the face of that silver-shanked one? Take heed, do not lay (on me) as a task that which cannot be done.”
  • Again, the crooked (perverted) sense hath naught but crooked (perverse) perception, (so) go crookedly into His presence or go straight, as thou wilt (it matters not).