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4
429-438

  • Without wick and oil it has no duration, and with wick and oil it is also faithless (transient),
  • Inasmuch as its light, (being) related to (secondary) causes, is seeking death: how should it live when bright day is the death of it? 430
  • Likewise all the human senses are impermanent, because they are naught in the presence of the Day of Resurrection.
  • The light of the senses and spirits of our fathers is not wholly perishable and naught, like the grass;
  • But, like the stars and moonbeams, they all vanish in the radiance of the Sun.
  • ’Tis just as the smart and pain of the flea's bite disappears when the snake comes in to you (and bites you).
  • ’Tis just as the naked man jumped into the water, that in the water he might escape from the sting of the hornets: 435
  • The hornets circle above (him), and when he puts out his head they do not spare him.
  • The water is recollection (dhikr) of God, and the hornet is the remembrance, during this time, of such-and-such a woman or such-and-such a man.
  • Swallow (hold) your breath in the water of recollection and show fortitude, that you may be freed from the old thought and temptation.