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4
547-556

  • At one time he will make you green like the earth, at another time he will make you full of wind, and big.
  • He gives the quality of inorganic things to the body of the knower (of God), in order that gay roses and eglantines may grow on it;
  • But he (the Shaykh) alone sees (them), none sees but he: Paradise yields no scent but to the purified brain.
  • Empty your brain of disbelief in the Friend, that it may feel sweet odours from the rose-garden of the Friend; 550
  • So that you may feel the scent of Paradise from my Friend, as Mohammed the scent of the Merciful (God) from Yemen.
  • If you stand in the rank of those who make the (spiritual) ascension, not-being (self-naughtedness) will bear you aloft, like Buráq.
  • ’Tis not like the ascension of a piece of earth (an earthly being) to the moon; nay, but like the ascension of a cane to sugar.
  • ’Tis not like the ascension of a vapour to the sky; nay, but like the ascension of an embryo to rationality.
  • The steed of not-being (self-naughtedness) became a goodly Buráq: it brings you to (real) existence, if you are non-existent (self-naughted). 555
  • Its hoof brushes the mountains and seas till it puts the world of sense perception behind.