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  • The spirit that has been distributed over the contents of the (mundane) sphere is shared amongst sixty passions;
  • Therefore silence is best: it gives peace to it ( to that spirit); therefore ( I ought to follow the adage) “Silence is the answer to fools.”
  • This I know, but intoxication of the body is opening my mouth without volition on my part,
  • Just as in sneezing and yawning this mouth becomes open without your willing it.
  • Commentary on the Tradition, "Verily, I ask pardon of God seventy times every day."
  • Like the Prophet, I repent seventy times daily of speaking and giving out (mysteries); 3300
  • But that intoxication becomes a breaker of (vows of) penitence: this intoxication of the body causes oblivion and tears the robe (of penitence).
  • The (Divine) purpose of making manifest the (things of) long ago (the eternal things) cast an intoxication upon the knower of the mystery,
  • (So that) with such drum and banner (conspicuousness) the hidden mystery has become water gushing from (the fountain of) “the Pen is dry.”
  • The infinite Mercy is flowing continually: ye are asleep to the perception thereof, O men!
  • The sleeper's garment drinks water from the river, (while) the sleeper is seeking the mirage in his dream. 3305