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5
1061-1070

  • Therefore strip the raiment of pride from thy body: in learning, put on the garment of humility.
  • If thou wouldst learn (theoretical) knowledge, the way of (acquiring) it is oral; if thou wouldst learn a craft, the way of (acquiring) it is practical (by practice).
  • If thou desire (spiritual) poverty, that depends on companionship (with a Shaykh): neither thy tongue nor thy hand avails.
  • Soul receives from soul the knowledge thereof, not by way of book nor from tongue.
  • If those mysteries (of spiritual poverty) are in the traveller's heart, knowledge of the mystery is not yet possessed by the traveller. 1065
  • (Let him wait) until the expansion (illumination) of his heart shall make it (full of) the Light: then God saith, “Did not We expand …?
  • For We have given thee the expansion (illumination) within thy breast, We have put the expansion into thy breast.”
  • Thou art still seeking it from outside; thou art a source of milk: how art thou a milker of others?
  • There is an illimitable fountain of milk within thee: why art thou seeking milk from the pail?
  • O lake, thou hast a channel to the Sea: be ashamed to seek water from the pool; 1070