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  • The marvellous alchemist who by a single operation fastened all these properties on Saturn.
  • Know, O seeker, that the remaining planets and the spiritual substances are (to be judged) according to the same standard.
  • The sensuous eye is subject to the sun: seek and find a divine eye, 595
  • In order that the beams of the flaming sun may become subject (abased) before that vision;
  • For that vision is luminous, while these (sunbeams) are igneous: fire is very dark in comparison with light.
  • The miraculous gifts and illumination of Shaykh ‘Abdullah Maghribí, may God sanctify his spirit.
  • Shaykh ‘Abdullah Maghribí said, “During sixty years I never perceived in night the quality of night.
  • During sixty years I never experienced any darkness, neither by day nor by night nor from infirmity.”
  • The Súfís declared his words to be true: “During the night we would follow him 600
  • Into deserts filled with thorns and ditches, he going in front of us like the full moon.
  • Without looking behind him, he would say, (though it was) at night-time, ‘Hark! here is a ditch: turn to the left!’